Bryce Canyon National Park

2007 - Bryce Canyon Completes East Creek Meadow Prescribed Fire
In June 2007, Bryce Canyon National Park Fire Management personnel completed the East Creek Meadow Prescribed Fire as part of their ongoing fire management program to reintroduce fire as a natural process, following years of exclusion.

Fire Management Program Center

2006 - Versatility Promotes Multiple Monitoring Applications: NPS Fire Ecology Assessment Tool (FEAT) Supports Other Natural Resource Monitoring Applications
The National Park Service’s Fire Ecology Program developed the Fire Ecology Assessment Tool (FEAT) to support the integration of fire effects monitoring with fire and land management planning objectives. Already in use within the Park Service, the tool also supports applications beyond the fire community.

2005 - Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity: NPS Providing Leadership and Support for Interagency Burn Severity Mapping
Recently the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) sdopted a strategy to monitor the effectiveness of the National Fire Plan (NFP) and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA). One component of this strategy is to assess the environmental impacts of large wildland fires and identify the trends in burn severity across the United States.

Grand Teton National Park

2006 - Teton Interagency Fifth Annual Fire Effects Symposium From Data to Decisions:  Implications of Fire Effects Monitoring
The fifth annual Teton Interacency Fire Effects Symposium was hosted on January 31, 2006 by Grand Teton National Park and Bridger-Teton National Forest. 

2005 - Monitoring Information Shared at Interagency Fire Effects Symposium
For the past three years in northwestern Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park and the Bridger-Teton National Forest have hosted a Fire Effects Symposium to bring together fire effects monitors, researchers, resource managers and fire professionals to talk about current projects and findings. This year’s symposium, held in early February, brought new participants and many informative presentations.

2004 - Interagency Fire Effects Meeting Shares Monitoring Information
The third annual Interagency Fire Effects Meeting was held in Jackson in February, bringing together resource professionals to review data and hold discussions on research and fire effects projects in the area. The diverse audience brought a range of skills and expertise to the meeting.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

2007 - Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project Meets Both Fuels and Ecological Objectives
Fire Management staff at Great Smoky Mountains National Park recently implemented a planned hazardous fuel reduction project in the heavily visited Cades Cove area of the park.

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

2007 - National Park Service Implements Prescribed Fire in Rare Mountain Long Leaf Pine Ecosystem
In January 2007, National Park Service firefighters met in Alabama at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park to implement a prescribed burn in rare mountain long leaf pine habitat.

Moores Creek National Battlefield

2006 - Prescribed Fire Used To Rehabilitate Landscape and Control Invasive Species
Moores Creek National Battlefield is rehabilitating a 5-acre wet-pine savanna to bring it closer in appearance to the likely landscape at the time of the 1776 Battle of Moores Creek Bridge.

Natchez Trace Parkway

2006 - Burning for Wildlife
Along the Natchez Trace Parkway, there are several thousand acres of unleased agricultural fields that are becoming invaded with woody species.  In order to maintain an early successional state, the Fire Management Office at the parkway has been reintroducing fire into the agricultural fields. 

2006 - Interagency Collaboration with Ecologic Benefits
The Natchez Trace Parkway, in conjunction with the Tombigbee National Forest, participated in a 3,500 acre burn during March 2006.

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

2007 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Embrace Research to Expand Knowledge of Historic Fires
During summer 2007, a partnership between Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP and the University of Rhode Island's School of Oceanography extracted sediment samples from the bottom of Oriole Lake in Sequoia NP. The fire charred materials, or black carbon that these samples contain will help reserachers to reconstruct the fire history in the region going as far back as 1000 years.

2005 - Using Science to “Cheat” Cheatgrass
If you ask the Roads End Prescribed Fire Burn Boss how the fire burned, she would say it was “light and spotty.” Under some circumstances, this would be a disappointing outcome, but in this case, it was exactly what the fire managers at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks wanted.

Shenandoah National Park

2007 - Three Burns, Three Resource Objectives
Fire managers successfully completed three prescribed
burns in Shenandoah National Park in spring 2007. Two
were first-time projects, one for vista maintenance and the other to promote oak regeneration; the third was part of a continuing effort to maintain Big Meadow as a meadow.

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

2007 - Eagle School Children and AK NPS Fire Management Track Forest Succession Following Intense Fire Season
In 2004 wildland fires surrounded the small community of Eagle, located south of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. In September 2004 fire staff led a group of students from Eagle, Alaska in establishing three fire effects plots. Every September, Eagle students and fire staff revisit the fire effects plots that were established in 2004. They take measurements and photos from the same locations as previous years and complete data sheets.

Zion National Park

2005 - Non-Native Plant Control Research in Zion Canyon
An innovative fire and resource management project has recently been initiated in Zion National Park. Zion Resource Management and Fire Management, through a partnership with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center and Lake Mead National Recreation Area Exotic Plant Management Team, have been funded by the Interagency Joint Fire Science Program to study ways to reduce non-native plants in Zion Canyon.