Valles Caldera National Preserve Fire Management Plan

As part of its mission, the National Park Service (NPS) Wildland Fire Program manages wildland fire to protect the public, park communities, and infrastructure; conserve natural and cultural resources; and maintain and restore natural ecosystem processes. Each NPS unit with burnable vegetation must have an approved fire management plan (FMP).

Valles Calderas FMP establishes strategies and tactics for managing wildland fire (including wildfire and prescribed fire) and non-fire fuel treatments, such as manual and mechanical thinning. The FMP includes goals and objectives that are designed to prioritize safety and manage risk to people, natural, biological, and cultural resources, and infrastructure; enhance relationships and collaboration in all fire management actions and activities; prioritize ecosystem stewardship; allow naturally ignited fire to function in Valles Calderas fire-dependent ecosystems; employ monitoring, research, and adaptive management; and incorporate adaptation to changing environmental conditions.

Valles Calderas FMP addresses values to be protected and is consistent with park resource stewardship goals and objectives and environmental laws and regulations such as the NEPA, the National and State Historic Preservation Acts, the Clean Air Act, and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Document Content:

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