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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia |
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Smoke of a Different Kind (FY'09)*
It wasn’t the smoke of soldiers’ campfires. On February 9, 2009, the smoke rising from Ferguson Field came from the park’s first prescribed burn.
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Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming |
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Local Fire Department Receives Financial Assistance (FY'09)*
Firefighters with the Crook County Volunteer Fire Department will have new personal protective equipment (PPE) during fires thanks to a Rural Fire Assistance Program grant of $19,216 received from Devils Tower National Monument in January 2009.
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Everglades National Park, Florida |
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Harney River Prescribed Fire Achieves Multiple Objectives (FY 09)*
An hour and a half ride in two 18-foot boats introduced a class from the Prescribed Fire Training Center (PFTC) to fire in the Everglades on January 12, 2009.
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado |
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Park's Fuel Treatments Helps Contain the Fossil Beds Wildfire (FY 09)*
In the world of fire management, it’s often hard to measure the success of many of the mitigation projects that are completed, unless they are actually tested by wildfire. That was the case in March 2009 at Colorado’s Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument...
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Intermountain Regional Office, Colorado |
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2008 NPS Intermountain Region Fire Management Awards (FY 09)
Len Dems, Intermountain Region Fire Management Officer presented the 2008 National Park Service Intermountain Region Fire Management Awards on January 28, 2009 during the Intermountain Region and Pacific West Region Fire Management Workshop in San Antonio, Texas.
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2009 Pacific West and Intermountain Regions Fire Management Workshop: Developing Staff to Lead Changes in Fire Management (FY 09)
The Pacific West and Intermountain Region held a three-day joint fire management workshop for more than 100 park level Fire Management Officers and Assistant Fire Management Officers in San Antonio, Texas during the last week of January.
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Pecos National Historical Park, New Mexico |
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Fuels Reduction on Historic Pasture Lands (FY 09)*
Pecos National Historical Park has undertaken an ambitious program of manual and mechanical treatments to reduce hazardous fuels and restore historic pasture lands.
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Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California |
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Advantage in Timing: Cedar Bluffs Prescribed Fire (FY 09)*
Fire managers in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks seized an opportunity to complete a prescribed fire in Cedar Grove that provided safer control measures while also achieving key ecological goals.
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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming |
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Arboriculture and Defensible Space: A Natural Partnership (FY 09)*
In an effort to increase sensitivity to emotions relating to tree removal in national parks, build empathy for the defensible space concept, and create mutually beneficial scenarios melding cultural landscape preservation and defensible space creation objectives, the Yellowstone Fire Management Program entered into an informal partnership with the NPS Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Meeting the Utilization Challenge, Chipping Fuels in Yellowstone (FY 09)*
One question facing fuels reduction programs is what is to do with the biomass produced?
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Park Uses Horses for Defensible Space, Wilderness Value Projects (FY 09)*
Among the most successful mitigation techniques has been the partnership arrangement with the park corral operations staff and program. They have accommodated fire management personnel by providing tack, transportation, stock and expert assistance in support of numerous wilderness, as well as front country projects.
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Yosemite National Park, California |
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Community Cooperation for Fuel Reduction (FY 08 and'09)*
Since the devestating A-Rock Fire in 1990, residents have worked closely with park fire managers to reduce hazard fuels and prevent future loss through a variety of projects including prescribed fire, mastication, property clearing, and proactive community planning, including developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
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* - Indicates story that supports the National Fire Plan |
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