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Mountain Pine Beetle Risk Assessment and Response Strategy
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Wind Cave National Park is soliciting comments on its Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) Risk Assessment and Response Strategy. This strategy is designed to guide park managers as the current epidemic of beetles nears the park.
The park plans to continue to use prescribed fire as its primary means of maintaining a healthy and resistant forest while dividing the park into three management zones for specific response strategies. Each management zone, the Developed Area, Boundary, and Back Country, has a different strategy that ranges from removing all green infected trees to areas of low threat where MPB will be allowed to function as a natural ecosystem process.
The park plans to continue to use prescribed fire as its primary means of maintaining a healthy and resistant forest while dividing the park into three management zones for specific response strategies. Each management zone, the Developed Area, Boundary, and Back Country, has a different strategy that ranges from removing all green infected trees to areas of low threat where MPB will be allowed to function as a natural ecosystem process.