Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
One National Park Service unit conducted their first prescribed fires, others used previous prescribed fires or fuel reduction projects to slow wildfires, and still other sites conducted training to prepare for the coming season. Stories from across the Service were submitted to the Department of the Interior, Office of Wildland Fire Coordination this week, and all met one or more goals of the National Fire Plan: Accountability, Community Assistance, Firefighting, Fuels Reduction, and Rehabilitation.
National Fire Plan - Accountability
National Fire Plan - Firefighting
National Fire Plan - Fuels Reduction
- Alaska Region - Eastern Area (AKR): Cabin Database Success in Alaska Parks
- Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland (NER): Park Conducts First Prescribed Burns
- Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Wyoming (IMR): Interagency Effort Removes Hazardous Fuels, Improves Habitat
- Congaree National Park, South Carolina (SER): Fuels Reduction Program Reduces Wildfire Intensity
- Coronado National Memorial, Arizona (IMR): Prescribed Fire Reduces Fuels around Park Structures
- Everglades National Park, Florida (SER): Roadside Prescribed Burn Helps Firefighters Contain Wildfire
- Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado (IMR): Fuel Treatments Help Contain Fossil Beds Wildfire
- Lassen Volcanic National Park, California (PWR): Loomis Prescribed Fire Continues
- National Capital Region, MD (NCR): Target Acreage Safely Exceeded
- Northeast Region, MD, ME, NY, PA, VA (NER): Target Acreage Safely Exceeded
National Fire Plan - Rehabilitation
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, 2009 Fire Stories http://www.nps.gov/fire/public/pub_firestories2009.cfm.
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