**2012 PROJECTS**
Mechanical fuel reduction at Golden Gate NRA will take place during the winter until bird nesting season begins March 1, and will then resume August 1. Burning will take place on several days this fall between August and early November if weather conditions allow.
Project descriptions for 2012 will be posted in January.
The Habitat Restoration Team will be revegetating the Gerbode Valley prescribed burn area with native plants during work days throughout the winter. See map for location of the burn units. Only the upper unit was burned.
To receive email notification about future prescribed burns call 415-464-5133.
**RECOVERY ACT FUEL REDUCTION PROJECTS**
Funding provided by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act enabled crews to work on a series of hazardous fuel reduction projects from November 2009 through September 2010.
See an example of a thinning treatment.
Read the success story.
**FIRE PREVENTION WEEK SPECIAL PROGRAM**
Fire in Muir Woods - 4:15 min (3,994 KB MP3)
...visitors respond to wildfire....
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.
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area's Fire Management Program is part of the .
Fire staff based at Golden Gate also serve , , , and .
