On Thursday, the Interior department announced it has invested over $5.1 million to advance wildfire resilience work and support fuels management projects in Colorado during fiscal year 2022. The funding comes from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and is part of $103 million allocated by the Interior earlier this year to reduce wildfire risk, mitigate impacts and rehabilitate burned areas. The funding will help complete fuels treatments on nearly 2 million acres nationwide this fiscal year, a substantial increase over the prior year. The announcement comes as Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau is in the Western U.S. this week to highlight how investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act are advancing wildfire resilience and drought resilience.