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Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Fire Regime
 
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2000 Prescribed Fire, the first at Fort Union Trading Post NHS Paula Andersen

Nature & Science
Fire Regime

The park implemented a prescribed fire program in 2000. As part of the management and re-establishment of native grass species, prescribed fire is used to mimic the role that wildfire once played on the prairie.

Fire Management Program Center supplemental website

http://www.nps.gov/ngpfire/fous.htm
Harry Truman, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front, holding pencil. Credit: Library of Congress  

Did You Know?
Harry Truman was never a man given to excess. He wrote to Bess, “An ideal condition would be to have to work just enough so if you stopped you’d not go busted at once – but still you’d know if you didn’t work you couldn’t live.”

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Last Updated: October 04, 2006 at 16:18 EST