FTEM Policy Guidance

Guidance memos for individual agencies are linked below:

• BIA FTEM policy (June 2013)
• BLM Instruction Memorandum for FTEM ( March 2021) and FTEM Policy & FAQs (2021)
• NPS Reporting Guidance (Sept. 2020) and NPS FTEM policy (July 2018)
• USDA Forest Service FTEM policy (April 2020)

Other resources include:

• Monitoring Guidance help topic: General guidance on answering FTEM monitoring questions.
• Agency Leads: Agency Leads are also administrators and will typically be able to address policy questions not covered by the above attachments, or for missing fires or treatments not explained by the Missing Treatments topic.