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Mountain Longleaf NWR's local community experiences few smoke problems in connection with the refuge
Southeast Region, May 28, 2004
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Mountain Longleaf NWR only has existed for one year. Prior to that time, it was part of the former Fort McLellan army training base. With closure of Fort McLellan, training related wildfires that had sustained one of the finest remaining stands of mountain longleaf pine ceased. With creation of the refuge, the Service is tasked with sustaining and restoring this fire dependant ecosystem that is evolving into a hardwood forest. Unlike wildfires from former army training, prescribed burning requires careful planning and timing to maximize ecological benefits. Constraints include close proximity to an urban area, mountainous terrain and the presence of unexploded ordnance. On May 25, a 28-member Service fire team accomplished the first 900-acre prescribed burn on the refuge. The success of this burn not only provided the first step to a long-term management program, but also demonstrated to the local community that prescribed burning could be safely accomplished without incurring problems with smoke over the surrounding urban area.

Contributed by: Contributed by: Bill Garland, biologist, Mountain Longleaf NWR, Fort McLellan, AL

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