The winners of the 2008 National Park Service (NPS) Fuels and Ecology Awards were announced at the Intermountain and Pacific West Regions Fire Management Workshop in San Antonio, Texas the last week of January 2009. The winners announced for each award are:
The Brad Cella Award for Achievement in Managing Fuels: Midwest Regional Office, Nebraska
The Achievement in Promoting Fire-Adapted Human Communities Award: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Tennessee/Kentucky
The Achievement in Restoring and Maintaining Fire-adapted Ecosystems Award: Corky Conover, Pacific West Regional Office, California
The Achievement in Appropriate Management Response to an Unplanned IgnitionAward: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming/Montana/Idaho
The Achievement in Implementing Adaptive ManagementAward: Resource Management staff, Yosemite National Park, California; and Nelson Siefkin, Pacific West Regional Office, California
The intention of the NPS Fuels and Ecology Program Awards is to promote those areas of emphasis important to the mission of the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior (DOI). The five areas of recognition have been selected from the NPS Wildland Fire Management Strategic Plan and the DOI Wildland Fire Performance Measures. The awards are meant to acknowledge those programs that have best aligned their efforts with the DOI and NPS Hazard Fuels Program goals. The Brad Cella Award - Achievement in Managing Fuels recognizes diligence and proficiency in managing fuels funds to reduce risk to critical park(s) values. This award looks at programmatic implementation of projects that have effectively reduced risk to park(s) values. The Achievement in Promoting Fire-Adapted Human Communities Award recognizes contributions to the designation of a âFirewise Community,â Community Wildfire Protection Plan, and/or significantly lowered the risk of wildfire negatively impacting a community. The Achievement in Restoring and Maintaining Fire-adapted Ecosystems Award recognizes efforts and fuels program that have contributed to moving or maintaining National Park Service lands in desired conditions. The Achievement in Appropriate Management Response to an Unplanned IgnitionAward recognizes successful management of one or more unplanned ignitions, resulting in achieving resource management goals, hazard fuel reduction objectives, cost containment, and safety for firefighters and the public. The Achievement in Implementing Adaptive ManagementAwardrecognizes substantial promotion of the use of adaptive management in their area of influence.
Award recipients in each of the five areas of achievement are presented with a plaque to display at their home office as well as commemorative embroidered jackets and a monetary award of $5,000. The recipients may use the monetary award as they choose.
Congratulations to all winners of the 2008 National Park Service Fuels and Ecology Awards.
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