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Fire Stories Highlight NPS Successes

National Park News

Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009

A dozen new stories 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 third quarter of Fiscal Year 2009. Thank you to all who wrote and submitted any of the 12 stories. See below for the listing of parks and associated stories this quarter:

National Fire Plan - Community Assistance

Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming (MWR): Fire Department Receives Financial Assistance from Park
Yosemite National Park, California (PWR): Community Cooperation for Fuel Reduction

National Fire Plan - Firefighting

Padre Island National Seashore, Texas (IMR): Prescribed Fire Treatment Area Helps Firefighters Control Wildfire
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia (NER): Smoke of a Different Kind

National Fire Plan - Fuels Reduction

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California (PWR): Advantage in Timing: Cedar Bluffs Prescribed Fire
Yosemite National Park, California (PWR): Prescribed Fire in Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias
Everglades National Park, Florida (SER): Harney River Prescribed Fire Achieves Multiple Objectives
Pecos National Historical Park, New Mexico (IMR): Fuels Reduction on Historic Pasture Lands
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (IMR): Arboriculture and Defensible Space: A Natural Partnership
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (IMR): Meeting the Utilization Challenge, Chipping Fuels in Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (IMR): Park Uses Horses for Defensible Space, Wilderness Value Projects

National Fire Plan - Rehabilitation

City of Rocks National Reserve (PWR): No Fire Too Small: Burned Area Rehabilitation in Sagebrush Steppe

These stories will eventually be placed on the Healthy Forests and Rangelands website (the combined National Fire Plan and Healthy Forests Initiative websites) - http://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/, however, you can read them immediately as well as other non-National Fire Plan stories on the NPS Fire and Aviation website, 2008 Fire Stories http://www.nps.gov/fire/public/pub_firestories2008.cfm and 2009 Fire Stories http://www.nps.gov/fire/public/pub_firestories2009.cfm (or click on the story links above to go directly to the story).

Stories are submitted to DOI on a quarterly basis for the National Fire Plan themes of Community Assistance, Firefighting, Fuels Reduction, Rehabilitation, and Accountability. Please contact your Regional Fire Communication and Education Specialist to get your National Fire Plan success story (or any fire story) front and center.