2008

Alaska Region, Alaska

Burned Areas: They Don’t All Look the Same
In order to better understand burn severity and wildland fire’s effects on Alaska’s national parks, the NPS Fire Management Program, in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have used remote sensing to map burn severity for all large NPS fires in Alaska since 1999. 

Amistad National Recreation Area, Texas

National Park Service Aids County Fire Department
In 2008, Amistad National Recreation Area (NRA) provided $12,000 in rural fire assistance funds to the Val Verde County Rural Volunteer Fire Department.

Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland

Civil War Battlefield Burns by Prescription in the 21st Century
In spring 2008, there was another kind of fire at the site of Civil War General Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of the North. The National Park Service (NPS) used fire to help restore part of the historic scene at Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico

Interagency Cooperation Key to Successful Burn
Bandelier National Monument treated 210 acres around the main visitor use area of the park with prescribed fire in September 2008.

Big Bend National Park, Texas

Park Successfully Completes Largest Prescribed Fire to Date
Big Bend National Park completed a 1,000 acre burn from June 11 to June 16, 2008, the park’s largest prescribed fire to date.

NPS Provides RFA Grant to Local Firefighters
Big Bend National Park provided $5,000 in rural fire assistance (RFA) funding to the Terlingua Fire and EMS (TFEMS) in 2008.

Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

Park Completes Second Year of Landscape-Level Fire Restoration
Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve is on its way to restoring the historic fire return interval on a half-million acres of fire-dependent landscape.

Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas

Mechanical Treatments Reduce Hazard Fuel Loads
Big Thicket National Preserve has been using mechanical fuel treatments to reduce hazardous fuels in the wildland-urban interface since 2004.

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Bryce Canyon Completes Residential Prescribed Fire During Height of Fire Season
The Residential Prescribed Fire was located in the northern portion of Bryce Canyon near the park entrance station, visitor center and residential areas.

Interagency Cooperation Key to Successful Burn
After nearly five years of planning and preparation the Puma Prescribed Fire (Rx) finally came to fruition in September 2008.

Buffalo National River, Arkansas

Arkansas Area Park Group Fire Management Receives Midwest Regional Fuels Award
The fire management staff of the Arkansas Area Park Group, located at Buffalo National River in Harrison, Arkansas, have been named the winner of the 2008 Midwest Regional Fuels Award.

Canaveral National Seashore, Florida

Complex Multi-agency Burn Completed
Bills Hill is a 1,088 acre tract on the mainland portion of Canaveral National Seashore. Careful application of prescribed fire was urgently needed to reduce the threat of wildfire.

Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts

Cooperators Benefit
Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, and Eastham Fire Departments on Cape Cod, Massachusetts received $20,000 worth of wildland fire equipment in 2008 under the Rural Fire Assistance (RFA) program administered through the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Capulin Volcano National Monument, New Mexico

Capulin Fire Department Receives Federal Funding
Capulin Volunteer Fire Department has received $11,000 in federal funding from the Department of the Interior under the Rural Fire Assistance (RFA) Program to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to its members.

Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma

Local Fire Departments Receive Funds from NPS
A total of $20,000 of federal funds will be distributed to two local departments, says Chickasaw National Recreation Area (CNRA) Superintendent Bruce Noble.

City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho

No Fire Too Small: Burned Area Rehabilitation in Sagebrush Steppe (FY 09)
Late in the afternoon on September 29, 2008, rock climbers on Jackson’s Thumb in City of Rocks National Reserve noticed a campfire that was all wrong – wrong place, wrong time, wrong everything.

Congaree National Park, South Carolina

Success and Discovery
The Griffin’s Creek Prescribed Fire at Congaree was accomplished in February 2008. Due to recent drought conditions, fire spread further into the floodplain than expected. Typically, wet soils serve as a barrier to fire; however a slow-backing fire crept into portions of the floodplain resulting in an additional 200 acres burned.

Autumn Burns Successful in Southeast National Parks
In autumn 2008, two very different national parks in South Carolina, Congaree National Park and Cowpens National Battlefield, both benefitted from a change in the seasonality of their prescribed fire programs.

Cowpens National Battlefield, South Carolina

Westside Prescribed Fire
On February 20, 2008, resources from several southeastern parks assembled at Cowpens National Battlefield, South Carolina to implement the Westside Prescribed Fire.

Autumn Burns Successful in Southeast National Parks
In autumn 2008, two very different national parks in South Carolina, Congaree National Park and Cowpens National Battlefield, both benefitted from a change in the seasonality of their prescribed fire programs.

Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska

Hazard Fuels Plan and Omnibus Burn Plans Contribute to More Fuels Management Accomplishments
With a Hazard Fuels Treatment Plan and the Omnibus Burn Plans in place from 2007, the 2008 staff accomplished more hazard fuels treatment projects and prescribed burns this season than ever before.

El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico

Maintaining Ponderosa Pine Forests with Prescribed Fire
El Malpais conducted 1,113 acre Agua Fria Prescribed Fire along Highway 53 between the El Calderon area and the park’s Information Center in late October 2008.

Everglades National Park, Florida

2008 Miccosukee Reserve Area Prescribed Fire
Over five months of planning and coordination between Everglades National Park, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and the Florida Department of Forestry culminated in the successful execution of the Miccosukee Reserve Area (MRA) Prescribed Burn on April 16, 2008.

One Year Prescribed Fire Scars Help Firefighters Contain Mustang Corner Fire
Reduced fuel loading from recent fires gave firefighters great assistance in containing the blaze. The fire burned into the 2007 Population F Buffer and U-Road prescribed fires as well as the 2006 Airboat Wildfire.

Mechanical Fuel Reduction Protects Backcountry Structure
Firefighters flew into "East Camp" and "West Camp" in early April to put a fire break in the grasses surrounding the shelters. The West Camp Fire was ignited by lightning on the evening of June 22, 2008. The fire threatened the shelter that was its namesake...

Everglades National Park Fire Communications Team
Communications has been identified in the park’s Fire Management Plan as an important element to the Fire Management Program. The park's Fire Communications Team coordinates communication and outreach projects so that they are accomplished in the most effective and efficient way.

Everglades National Park Marks 50 Years of Prescribed Fire
In 1958, Everglades National Park made a radical deviation from the national wildland fire strategy of 100% suppression at the time and began a long-term prescribed fire project in the Pine Rocklands ecosystem...

Flagstaff Area Monuments, Arizona

Summit Fire Department Receives Rural Fire Assistance Funding
The National Park Service has partnered once again with the Summit Fire District in the management of wildland fire in and near Sunset Crater Volcano, Wupatki, and Walnut Canyon National Monuments.

Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming

Cooperative Effort Helps Protect Community and Park
Along with sharing equipment between departments, a new agreement allows qualified park staff to respond to fire calls within the Fort Laramie Fire District...

Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California

Community Commitment to Fire Safety in Marinview
During the winter of 2008, Southern Marin Fire Protection District (SMFPD) conducted a risk assessment on every structure in the subdivision in order to prioritize areas for treatment in the Marinview Fire Mitigation Project.

Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah

Research Burns Used in Attempt to Restore Native Grasslands
As of October 2008, Golden Spike National Historic Site (NHS) had completed several, small prescribed fires as part of a joint research project being carried out between the National Park Service (NPS) and Utah State University. The goals of these burns are to determine the best method of restoring historic vegetation patterns and in the process, to reduce the amount of non-native, invasive grasses.

Grand Canyon National Park / Kaibab National Forest, Arizona

Interagency North Zone Fire Management
In 2007, the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and the Kaibab National Forest’s North Kaibab Ranger District combined fire resources to form the interagency North Rim Fire Management Organization. 

Grand Teton National Park / Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming

Symposium Offers Forum Sharing Monitoring, Project Results
More than 60 people from four states braved blizzard conditions to attend the sixth Teton Interagency Fire Effects Symposium February 7, 2008 in Jackson, Wyoming.

Interagency Crews Complete Complex Interface Burn in Park
In mid-May 2008, Teton Interagency fire managers completed a complex urban interface prescribed fire after three years of planning and coordination. 

Interagency Training Enhanced by Community Participation
On June 14, 2008, 150 firefighters from Teton, Sublette and Lincoln counties, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park, the National Elk Refuge, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Wyoming State Forestry Division converged at Hoback Ranches subdivision near Bondurant, WY, for the annual All Fire Day.

Fuels Reduction Project Proven Valuable Again
A Grand Teton Nationl Park fuels reduction project from 1998 proved again it was worth the effort when a human-caused fire started on August 10 on the edge of the project area.

Fuels Reduction Project Protects Rustic Tent Cabins, Guests
When guests rent tent cabins at Colter Bay in Grand Teton National Park in summer 2009, they will get the rustic experience without the added risk of wildfire, thanks to efforts from interagency fire crews and the Grand Teton Lodge Company.

Resource, Fire Managers Join Forces to Restore Native Rangeland
Grand Teton National Park fire and resource managers took steps in fall 2008 to implement a 4,000-acre native rangeland restoration project when they burned the 271-acre Aspen Ridge/Hunter hayfield.

Fifth Grade Students Conduct Fire Effects Research for Park
In September 2008, fifth-graders from all Teton County, Wyoming schools participated in a three-day place-based program with Teton Science Schools (TSS) with an emphasis on fire ecology and fire effects research.

Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Montana

Fuels Reduction Project Helps Slow Fire Spread
When the Cottonwood Fire started April 13 just off the boundary of Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge, Montana, it didn’t have an opportunity to spread far.

Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas

Kendra Mayes, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Receives National Fire Management Award for 2007
Kendra Mayes, fire program management assistant (FPMA) at Guadalupe Mountains National Park, has been honored with the 2007 Jeanie Harris Award.

Gulf Island National Seashore, Mississippi / Florida

Prescribed Fire Task Force Implements Fuels Treatment Efforts
In early 2008, resources from the National Park Service joined up in Florida and Mississippi to unofficially become “Task Force Arrowhead”, a prescribed fire task force with the goal of reducing hazardous fuels accumulations at two sites within Gulf Islands National Seashore.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

Park Reintroduces Fire
On November 12, west of Chillicothe, Ohio along the banks of the North Fork of Paint Creek, smoke was visible as firefighters conducted a six acre prescribed fire.

Joshua Tree National Park, California

Rehabilitating Burned-Over Building Sites in Joshua Tree
The highest priority after a July 2006 fire burned 1525 acres was to restore the ecology of the Whispering Pines area and mitigate safety risks and potential resource damage posed by debris from the burned over building sites.

Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina

Multiple Benefits from Fuels Projects
On March 11 and 12, 2008, Kings Mountain National Military Park (NMP) completed two successful prescribed burns. Both burns were second entry burns totaling 429 acres.

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota

Rod Skalsky, Facility Manager, Receives Midwest Region Fire Award
Rod Skalsky, Facility Manager at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, was the recipient of a 2008 Midwest Region “Fire Works!” Award.

Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Texas

Interagency Collaboration and Pre-Planning Key to Successful Response
The Pantera Fire burned 135 acres. Using an indirect method of attack, created a safer environment for firefighters and saved costs.

Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Park Completes Mineral Headquarters Prescribed Fire
Lassen Volcanic National Park completed treatment of 50 acres to reduce fuel continuity and protect the historic administration area by providing a buffer from destructive, intense crown fires and provide for future firefighter and public safety.

Interdisciplinary Efforts Treat Cheatgrass
In May and early June 2008, fire management staff joined with resource management staff in an effort to eradicate the invasive species, cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum. A propane torch was used to wilt the plants before they went to seed.

Two Successful Fall Prescribed Fires
Lassen Volcanic National Park fire staff along with personnel from Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and Lava Beds National Monument completed the Loomis and Butte Lake prescribed fires in October 2008.

Lava Beds National Monument, California

Park Completes 3rd Year of Modoc War Cultural Landscape Restoration
For the past three years, fire staff has taken an active role in restoring Modoc War cultural landscape through prescribed fire and mechanical treatment.

Park Successfully Uses Minimum Impact Tactics to Contain Fire
The 6,000 acre Jack Fire was contained on August 23, 2008 using minimum impact tactics (MIST). The fire burned 5,420 acres on Lava Beds National Monument (NPS) and 580 acres of Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge (FWS) lands.

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Texas

Park Distributes Rural Fire Assistance Funding
This year, Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park awarded $9,000 in RFA funding to the local Johnson City Volunteer Fire Department...

Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky

Three Prescribed Fires Accomplish Resource, Fuels Goals
By looking for alternatives and keeping a flexible attitude, Burn Boss Pete Jerkins and Mammoth Cave National Park managers accomplished three prescribed fires, 3,287 acres, in FY 2008. 

Park Works With Local Communities to Achieve Success
Since the park began its prescribed fire program, nine miles of boundary have been treated with fire. Though in a rural setting, communities, farms, residences, and businesses adjoin the park boundary. Park managers are working to improve the interface between the park and its neighbors.

NPS Southeast Region Holds Fire Interpretation Workshop
On November 18 and 19, 2008, thirty-three National Park Service firefighters and park rangers met at Mammoth Cave National Park to share success stories and insights about how to increase public understanding and support for fire management practices.

Midwest Region, Arkansas / Illinois/ Indiana /Iowa / Kansas / Michigan / Minnesota / Missouri / Nebraska / North Dakota / Ohio/ Wisconsin / South Dakota

Arkansas Area Park Group Fire Management Receives Midwest Regional Fuels Award
The fire management staff of the Arkansas Area Park Group, located at Buffalo National River in Harrison, Arkansas, have been named the winner of the 2008 Midwest Regional Fuels Award.

Rod Skalsky, Facility Manager, Receives Midwest Region Fire Award
Rod Skalsky, Facility Manager at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, was the recipient of a 2008 Midwest Region “Fire Works!” Award.

Gary Luce, Prescribed Fire Specialist, Receives Midwest Region Fire Award
Gary Luce, Prescribed Fire Specialist, formerly duty-stationed at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, was the recipient of a 2008 Midwest Region “Fire Works!” Award. 

New River Gorge National River, West Virginia

Helping Hands
Wildland firefighting in isolated backcountry areas is now a little easier for two neighboring volunteer fire departments as New River Gorge National River purchased new wildland fire skid units and donated them...

Northeast Region, Connecticut / Delaware / Maine / Massachusetts / New Hampshire /New Jersey /New York / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / Vermont / Virginia / West Virginia, and National Capital Region (Washington DC) and Virginia Department of Forestry

Information, Please
In March 2008, a group of federal and state employees successfully completed the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) course, Introduction to Incident Information (S-203) in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Cooperation in Action – Firefighter Training
The June 2008 Virginia Interagency Wildland Fire Academy at Longwood University in Farmville, brought 539 firefighters registered for the 17 firefighting courses taught by 90 certified instructors from VDOF, National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Forest Service.

Preparedness Grant Supports Southwest Virginia Wildland Fire Academy
The 2008 Southwest Virginia Wildland Fire Academy was held September 11 -14 at the 4-H Center in Abingdon, Virginia. This was the second fire academy coordinated and hosted by the Virginia Department of Forestry this year.

Advancing Land Care Stewardship
Hard-working volunteers educated over 7,200 people about a Firewise house, worms, and compost at the 2008 Virginia State Fair.

Padre Island National Seashore, Texas

Headquarters Prescribed Fire
Padre Island National Seashore treated approximately 1,140 acres of coastal grassland prairie with prescribed fire on June 19-20, 2008. The burn was located near park headquarters, between Park Road 22 and the Gulf of Mexico shoreline.

Prescribed Fire Treatment Area Helps Firefighters Control Wildfire (FY 09)
The Polaris Wildfire started on December 6, 2008 on Padre Island on property owned by the Texas Government Land Office, just south of Sea Pines and approximately 2.5 miles north of Padre Islands National Seashore.

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park Outfits Local Firefighters
Petrified Forest National Park provided basic wildland fire training materials, personal protective gear, and fire shelters to the Puerco Valley Fire District in 2008.

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Park Distributes Federal Funding To Local Volunteer Fire Departments
Rocky Mountain National Park staff distributed $27,544 in 2008, to assist four local volunteer fire departments.

Saguaro National Park, Arizona

Buffelgrass Fire Behavior Research Burn
Saguaro National Park teamed up with Tucson Water and the University of Arizona to conduct a 160-acre prescribed burn on City of Tucson land in Avra Valley on May 28, 2008.

Interagency Management of 2008 Rincon Mountain Fires
In late June 2008 lightning started four fires in the Rincon Mountain range. These fires were seamlessly managed under shared fire management operations provided through an interagency agreement which has been in place for several years.

Returning Natural Fire to the Rincon Mountains
The 130-acre Chimenea Wildland Fire Use was ignited by lightning on June 26, 2008. Located in the remote Saguaro Wilderness in the Rincon Mountains, the fire was within an area pre-approved for wildland fire use in the park’s fire management plan.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California

Dillonwood Fire Exercise Prepares Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument for Interagency Fire Management
Managers from Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Sequoia National Forest, and Giant Sequoia National Monument participated in a fire simulation exercise at Ash Mountain Recreation Hall in Sequoia National Park on April 7, 2008 to help park and forest managers consider actions they would take when wildland fires cross the two agency’s boundaries.

Studying the Past to Plan for the Future: Reflecting on 40 Years of Fire Management
In 1968, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks shifted fire management strategies from a policy of full suppression to one that included prescribed fire and managed lightning fires to achieve vegetation and wildlife management objectives. The parks held a meeting this past June that invited many of the orginal research scientists and fire managers, contemporary park, regional, and national leaders within the National Park Service; and USGS and Forest Service partners.

Fire Information Outreach during the Hidden Fire
On September 10, a thunderstorm passed over Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and ignited the Hidden Fire. Fire managers implemented indirect attack strategies using aerial and ground resources to conduct burnout operations, including along the Generals Highway, to remove fuels from the advancing fire and to strengthen control lines.

The Tehipite Fire: A Lesson in Adaptive Management (Story includes Sierra National Forest)
When lightning ignited the Tehipite (pronounced tuh-hip-uh-tee) Fire on July 14, 2008, fire managers faced a challenge. The fire was burning in some of the steepest, most remote wilderness terrain in Kings Canyon National Park – a dangerous place to put firefighters on the ground.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

A Good Day at Blackrock
May 7, 2008 wasn’t too wet and wasn’t too dry. That day, fire managers safely completed Shenandoah National Park’s largest, most complex burn. The 282-acre project’s goal was to help oaks and table mountain pines thrive.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Gary Luce, Prescribed Fire Specialist, Receives Midwest Region Fire Award
Gary Luce, Prescribed Fire Specialist, formerly duty-stationed at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, was the recipient of a 2008 Midwest Region “Fire Works!” Award.

Tonto National Monument, Arizona

Park Distributes Rural Fire Assistance Funding
In 2008, the park was able to help improve the safety and capability of the Tonto Basin Fire District by providing local firefighters with specialized wildland fire equipment including mobile radios and personal protective equipment (PPE).

Tumacácori National Historical Park, Arizona

Interagency Partners Respond to Mission Fire
The Mission Fire was reported around 9 a.m. on April 2, 2008 near the south boundary of Tumacácori National Historical Park. It was contained on the evening of April 3. A total of 110 acres burned, 85 acres of which were in the park.

Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, California

Interagency Group Comes Together to Support Local Media on Fire Safety
Members from the Shasta County Fire Prevention Officers Association, representing all of the local fire agencies in Shasta County came together for a Media Safety Training Event on May 15, 2008 allowing different government agencies to meet with the local media before a wildfire event occurs.

Fuels Reduction Project Helps Protect Communities and Ties In with NPS goals and Objectives
The Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, through the Shasta County Fire Safe Council, received a National Fire Plan grant to construct a shaded fuelbreak along both sides of Highway 299 from the east boundary of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area to the west boundary of the town of Old Shasta. This project created 36 acres of defensible space.

Fuel Reduction Efforts Successful during Motion Fire
Whiskeytown’s efforts over the years to reduce hazardous fuels by creating roadside shaded fuelbreaks and clearing vegetation around structures were tested when the Motion Fire threatened the Fire Use Module office.

Historical Resources Database Pays Dividends for Resource Advisors
During the wildfires of June and July 2008, a recently created historical resource geospatial database proved invaluable as a tool for minimizing the effects of fire and fire management actions on cultural resources, and planning for post-fire emergency stabilization.

Dog Prescribed Fire Closes Out Busy Fire Season for Park
After a busy summer fighting wildfires, Whiskeytown Fire Management was able to complete the 672 acre Dog Prescribed Fire on October 15-17, 2008. This is the first significant prescribed burn Whiskeytown National Recreation Area (NRA) has completed since fall 2005.

Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota

Hot Springs Volunteer Fire Department Receives $20,000 Grant from Park
Firefighters with the Hot Springs Volunteer Fire Department will have improved communications during fires thanks to a Rural Fire Assistance Program grant of $20,000 received from Wind Cave National Park.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

LeHardy Fire Provides Opportunity for New Policy Implementation
When the LeHardy Fire ignited July 30 two miles north of the Fishing Bridge Junction on Park Road 89, firefighters initially aggressively attacked it to protect visitors and a key road during peak visitation...

Montana Conservation Corps Works to Make Cabin Defensible
The Nez Perce cabin that sits nestled in the lodgepole forest near Old Faithful now has a fighting chance to withstand a wildfire as a result of some hard work by the Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) and Yellowstone firefighters.

Students Learn Fire Ecology through Place-based Learning
Did the 1988 fires really devastate Yellowstone? What has regenerated? How is the landscape different? These are some questions 100 students from Gardiner and Bozeman, Montana, answered after participating in an intensive three-day fire ecology and management program with Teton Science Schools (TSS), the National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service.

Yosemite National Park, California

Jack Fire Success Builds Upon Fuel Treatments to Protect Wawona
The lightning-caused Jack Fire was detected on October 31, 2007. Located in the wilderness two miles north of the community of Wawona, the fire ignited near the top of Turner Ridge. For many years, Turner Ridge has posed a problem to fire managers at Yosemite.

Prescribed Fire in Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias (FY 09)
Several prescribed burns in the Mariposa Grove late in fall, 2008 helped fire managers in Yosemite National Park move toward what has been a goal for almost 40 years: reintroducing fire to the entire grove of Giant Sequoias and laying a strong foundation for restoration of the delicate Grove ecology to pre-settlement (~1850) conditions.

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska

Wildland Fire Happens, Fire Managers Prepare
For 3 days in late September, National Park Service (NPS) fire personnel traveled to 8 remote areas of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve to burn 5 acres of hazard fuel piles near backcountry structures.

Zion National Park, Utah

East Mesa Prescribed Fire
In early May, fire management personnel from Zion National Park, with cooperation from interagency partners, completed the East Mesa Prescribed Fire (Rx) project located along the park’s eastern boundary.

East Mesa Prescribed Fire Stops Wildland Fire
On August 1, a wildland fire was reported near the eastern boundary of Zion National Park within the area of the East Mesa Prescribed Fire (Rx).

Three Finger Mesa Prescribed Fire Successfully Completed
After many years of planning and cooperation between interagency partners and private land owners, the Three Finger Mesa Prescribed Fire (Rx) was successfully completed during the last week of October 2008.

Annual Success Story Publications
Compilations of success stories for National Fire Plan.