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Abstract
Yosemite National Park
Lead Agency: National Park Service
Yosemite Final Fire Management Plan
Environmental Impact Statement
The Yosemite National Park Fire Management Plan/Environmental Impact
Statement guides the implementation of a complex fire management
program. The program includes wildland fire suppression, wildland fire
used to achieve natural and cultural resource benefits, fire prevention,
prescribed fire, fire ecology research, and the use of mechanical
methods to reduce and thin vegetation in and around communities.
One goal of the program is to reduce the threat of wildland fire to
public safety and to the park’s wildland urban interface communities as
well as to its natural and cultural resources. Another goal is to return
the influence of natural fire to park ecosystems so that they are
restored to, and maintain in, as natural a condition as possible.
The Fire Management Plan /Environmental Impact Statement proposes to
reduce risk to park wildland urban interface communities within six to
eight years, and to restore park ecosystems within 15 to 20 years. Some
of the work which will be done to reduce the risk of unwanted wildland
fire in and adjacent to wildland urban interface communities will
involve mechanical methods. The primary methods to reduce wildland fire
risk and to restore park ecosystems, however, will be prescribed and
wildland fire.
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