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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, as highlighted in the NPS Wildland Fire Strategic Plan.
All NPS units with burnable vegetation must have an approved Fire Management Plan (FMP). An FMP is a programmatic planning document that describes policy, goals, and objectives, and establishes strategies and tactics for managing wildland fire and non-fire fuel treatments, such as manual and mechanical thinning. FMPs are based on direction from existing park planning documents, such as a general management plan and resource stewardship plan.
The NPS is proposing to develop and implement a new FMP for Bandelier National Monument ("Bandelier," or "park") with a fire management strategy that aligns with Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and includes vegetation thinning, prescribed fire, and a full range of strategies for managing wildfire. The flexible range of fire management strategies for managing wildfire may include fully suppressing lightning-caused wildland fires or managing them as they burn in a geographically defined area under specific prescription parameters to accomplish resource management goals and objectives.
Bandelier's FMP will address values to be protected and align with parkwide resource stewardship goals and objectives. The FMP will also be consistent with environmental laws and regulations such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Federal and State Historic Preservation Acts, Clean Air Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
In accordance with NEPA, Bandelier's FMP Environmental Assessment will evaluate potential impacts of two fire management plan alternatives on the natural, biological, physical, cultural, social, and economic environments related to Bandelier.
• Alternative A (no action): Continue current (2005) multiple strategy wildland fire management program
• Alternative B (proposed action): Expanded multiple strategy wildland fire management program
All NPS units with burnable vegetation must have an approved Fire Management Plan (FMP). An FMP is a programmatic planning document that describes policy, goals, and objectives, and establishes strategies and tactics for managing wildland fire and non-fire fuel treatments, such as manual and mechanical thinning. FMPs are based on direction from existing park planning documents, such as a general management plan and resource stewardship plan.
The NPS is proposing to develop and implement a new FMP for Bandelier National Monument ("Bandelier," or "park") with a fire management strategy that aligns with Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and includes vegetation thinning, prescribed fire, and a full range of strategies for managing wildfire. The flexible range of fire management strategies for managing wildfire may include fully suppressing lightning-caused wildland fires or managing them as they burn in a geographically defined area under specific prescription parameters to accomplish resource management goals and objectives.
Bandelier's FMP will address values to be protected and align with parkwide resource stewardship goals and objectives. The FMP will also be consistent with environmental laws and regulations such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Federal and State Historic Preservation Acts, Clean Air Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
In accordance with NEPA, Bandelier's FMP Environmental Assessment will evaluate potential impacts of two fire management plan alternatives on the natural, biological, physical, cultural, social, and economic environments related to Bandelier.
• Alternative A (no action): Continue current (2005) multiple strategy wildland fire management program
• Alternative B (proposed action): Expanded multiple strategy wildland fire management program