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Fire plays a significant role in the ecosystems at Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The fire regime has varied over time in response to both climatic changes and human activity. The fire history of the landscape has been shaped by lightning, as well as by the land management practices of Native Americans, ranchers, loggers, the military, developers and, most recently, the National Park Service.
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area's Office of Fire Management, in accordance with the Fire Management Plan, manages fire in such a way as to retain its beneficial effects in the ecosystem while protecting resources, property and lives.
The goals of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Fire Management Program are:
- Ensure that firefighter and public safety is the highest priority for all fire management activities.
- Reduce wildland fire risk to private and public property.
- Protect natural resources from adverse effects of fire and fire management activities, and use fire management wherever appropriate to sustain and restore natural resources.
- Preserve historic structures, landscapes, and archeological resources from adverse effects of fire and fire management activities, and use fire management wherever appropriate to rehabilitate or restore these cultural resources.
- Refine management practices by improving knowledge and understanding of fire through research and monitoring.
- Develop and maintain staff expertise in all aspects of fire management.
- Effectively integrate the fire management program into park and park partner activities.
- Foster informed public participation in fire management activities.
- Foster and maintain interagency fire management partnerships and contribute to the firefighting effort at the local, state, and national level.
The Office of Fire Management monitors and responds to all wildand fires within the park and maintains an appropriate preparedness level in accordance with the park's Wildland Fire Step-Up Plan. Structural fires within the park and in the Presidio are handled by the .
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area's Fire Management Program is part of the .
Fire staff based at Golden Gate also serve , , , and .
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