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External Survey
WHAT PRIORITIES DO YOU BELIEVE THE DEPARTMENT SHOULD LAUNCH
TO ADDRESS THE IDENTIFIED CHALLENGES?
60
Write-In Responses Categorized
50
40
30
20
Technology and
Innovation
Reasonable/Competitive
Work Schedules
Improve/Expand
Infrastructure
Prescribed Fire
Enhance Natural
Resources
Better Management
Community Engagement
and Support
Fire Prevention
Vegetation
Management
Better Collaboration
with Other Entities
Employee
Wellness
More Resources
and Support
Employee
Retention
Employee
Development
Competitive Pay
and Benefits
Recruitment
0
Adequate
Staffing
10
WHAT
DO YOU
BELIEVE
ARE THE
TOP
INTERNAL
AND EXTERNAL CHALLENGES THAT THE
NOTE: Categories
with 10
or under responses
are not
captured
in illustration.
DEPARTMENT WILL FACE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS?
Internal Survey
Retention and Recruitment
1,101
1,000
Hiring
Funding
906
800
Training
587
600
Climate Change and Increased Fire Activity
517
400
Write-In Responses
349
Lack of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
224
200
126
0
External Survey
400
350
341
335
354
343
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
186
115
66
Write-In Responses (Categorized):
• Accountability and transparency
• Collaborations
• Declining support
• Employee Labor Organizations
• Fire activity, management, and enforcement
• Forest management
• Government
• Lack of knowledge, education, or awareness
• Outdated or lacking infrastructure/technology
• Political and special interest group pressures
• Public perception
• Retention
• Utility Companies
• Wildland Urban Interface
• Workforce capacity needs
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