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Everglades National Park
Fire Management
 
Fire management in Everglades National Park combines fire operations, prescribed fire and fire ecology in order to maintain fire in the natural ecosystems while adequately considering impacts upon nearby human population centers as well as threatened and endangered species habitat.  The plans and actions of the Everglades Fire Management staff are guided by the Fire Management Plan.
A Historical Perspective of Fire Management in the Everglades
A Fire Management Historical Perspective
of Everglades Fire Management
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Fire as an Ecosystem Management Tool
Using Fire
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