Fire Management

Fire can be used to provide a natural appearing landscape for the park. With proper planning and execution, prescribed fire can manipulate vegetation to produce healthier habitats as a background for the developed zone of the park. At the same time fuel management, using both mechanical means and prescribed fire, can reduce the risk to cultural and historic structures.

 

Wildland Fire

Get fired up about the forests and fire management practices of the Park.

Management

Learn more about the management practices, the offices, and key policies that keep the Park functioning.

Hot Springs Geology

The story of the Park's thermal springs begins with rocks that formed over 400 million years ago...