Fire Stories Spotlight NPS Successes for FY 2008 and FY 2009

Nearly three dozen stories in all were submitted to the Department of the Interior's Office of Wildland Fire Coordination this week in support of the National Fire Plan for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2009. Thank you to all who wrote and submitted any of the 34 stories. See below for the listing of parks and associated stories this quarter:

National Fire Plan - Accountability

• Everglades National Park, Florida (SER): Everglades National Park Fire Communications Team
• Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky (SER): NPS Southeast Region Holds Fire Interpretation Workshop
• Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (IMR): Students Learn Fire Ecology through Place-based Learning
• Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (IMR): Fifth Grade Students Conduct Fire Effects Research for Park
  

• Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota (MWR): Hot Springs VFD Receives $20,000 Grant from NPS
• New River Gorge National River, West Virginia (NER): Helping Hands
• Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts (NER): Cooperators Benefit
• Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Texas (IMR): Park Distributes Rural Fire Assistance Funding
• Big Bend National Park, Texas (IMR): NPS Provides RFA Grant to Local Firefighters
• Amistad National Recreation Area, Texas (IMR): National Park Service Aids County Fire Department
• Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma (IMR): Local Fire Departments Receive Funds from NPS
• Capulin Volcano National Monument, New Mexico (IMR): Capulin Fire Department Receives Federal Funding
• Tonto National Monument, Arizona (IMR): Park Distributes Rural Fire Assistance Funding
• Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (IMR): Petrified Forest National Park Outfits Local Firefighters
• Flagstaff Area Monuments, Arizona (IMR): Summit Fire Department Receives Rural Fire Assistance Funding
• Northeast Region, Virginia (NER): Advancing Land Care Stewardship

• Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California (PWR): Fire Information Outreach during the Hidden Fire
• Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California (PWR): The Tehipite Fire: A Lesson in Adaptive Management
• Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, California (PWR): Historical Resources Database Pays Dividends for Resource Advisors
• Northeast Region and Virginia Department of Forestry (NER): Preparedness Grant Supports Southwest Virginia Wildland Fire Academy

• Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska (AKR): Wildland Fire Happens, Fire Managers Prepare
• Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (IMR): Interagency Cooperation Key to Successful Burn
• Lassen Volcanic National Park, California (PWR): Two Successful Fall Prescribed Fires
• Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, California (PWR): Dog Prescribed Fire Closes Out Busy Fire Season for Park
• Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, Ohio (MWR): Park Reintroduces Fire
• Zion National Park, Utah (IMR): Three Finger Mesa Prescribed Fire Successfully Completed
• Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (IMR): Montana Conservation Corps Works to Make Cabin Defensible
• El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico (IMR): Maintaining Ponderosa Pine Forests with Prescribed Fire
• Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (IMR): Fuels Reduction Project Protects Rustic Tent Cabins, Guests
• Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico: Protecting Park Resources with Prescribed Fire
• Congaree National Park, South Carolina (SER): Autumn Burns Successful in Southeast National Parks
• Cowpens National Battlefield (SER): Autumn Burns Successful in Southeast National Parks

• NPS Alaska Region, Alaska (AKR): Burned Areas: They Don’t All Look the Same
• Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah (IMR): Research Burns Used in Attempt to Restore Native Grasslands
• Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (IMR): Resource, Fire Managers Join Forces to Restore Native Rangeland
• Congaree National Park, South Carolina (SER): Autumn Burns Successful in Southeast National Parks
• Cowpens National Battlefield (SER): Autumn Burns Successful in Southeast National Parks