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Environmental Assessment for Hunter Mountain Pinyon Pine Ecosystem Fire Treatment and Study


The National Park Service is currently accepting comments on an Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing a proposal to conduct a prescribed fire and associated ecosystem study for 50 acres of pinyon pine forest with scattered sagebrush at the intersection of the Hunter Mountain Road and the Hunter Cabin Road in Death Valley National Park (Park). The EA is available for download on this page.

An analysis of two alternatives and their potential impacts to the environment and park resources are presented in the EA—no action and the Park's preferred alternative. The Park's preferred alternative includes conducting a 50-acre prescribed fire and combining this management action with a fire treatment study involving fire effects study plots in Hunter Mountain's pinyon pine ecosystem.

The purpose of this proposed action would be to restore fire as a natural process in the pinyon pine forest, provide important fire effects information from fire effects study plots within the burn perimeter, reduce the ability of exotic plants to invade natural or previously treated areas, increase forest health by creating a mosaic of native vegetation age classes, promote conditions that would allow for recruitment of native grasses and forbs, and diminish the potential of a catastrophic fire.

Death Valley National Park is very interested in your comments on the Environmental Assessment. You may comment directly by clicking the "Comment on Document" button on this page.

You may also submit hard copy comments to:
Park Superintendent
Death Valley National Park
ATTN: Hunter Mountain Prescribed Fire Comments
P.O. Box 579
Death Valley, CA 92328

Comments will be accepted until July 8, 2013.

If you have any questions, please contact Death Valley National Park's Chief of Resource Management Kelly Fuhrmann at 760-786-3253.
 
Comment Period: Closed        Jun 5, 2013 - Jul 8, 2013
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