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The National Park Service (NPS) has completed an environmental assessment and assessment of effect (EA/AEF) for Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The NPS will now develop a new fire management plan which will be both strategic and operational, guiding the full range of wildland fire program activities that support land and resource management objectives, consistent with the EA/AEF. A new plan is expected to be complete in 2014. Until then, fire management at the Monument continues to be guided by a 2005 plan. The purpose of the proposed fire management plan at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is to ensure the health and safety of the public, NPS staff, and firefighters; protect cultural and natural resources; use fire in a manner that maintains a healthy and sustainable ecosystem; and strengthen cooperative fire management partnerships. A new plan is necessary per NPS policy.
The NPS analyzed two alternatives that would provide the decision-making framework that 1) analyzes a reasonable range of alternatives to meet project objectives, 2) evaluates issues and impacts to monument resources and values, and 3) identifies mitigation measures to lessen the degree or extent of these impacts. The alternative selected for implementation, Alternative B, will include options for manual fuel load reduction to lower the risk of wildland fires, and prescribed fire as a resource management tool. Alternatives were derived from comments received during public scoping, which occurred in the spring of 2012, and from internal scoping which occurred throughout the preparation of the EA. A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was signed in July, 2013, and is available on this site. Changes to the EA/AEF are included as Errata in the FONSI. Substantive comments and the NPS' responses are also included in the Errata.
Chief of Resource Management
chris_ziegler@nps.gov
406-638-3221
The NPS analyzed two alternatives that would provide the decision-making framework that 1) analyzes a reasonable range of alternatives to meet project objectives, 2) evaluates issues and impacts to monument resources and values, and 3) identifies mitigation measures to lessen the degree or extent of these impacts. The alternative selected for implementation, Alternative B, will include options for manual fuel load reduction to lower the risk of wildland fires, and prescribed fire as a resource management tool. Alternatives were derived from comments received during public scoping, which occurred in the spring of 2012, and from internal scoping which occurred throughout the preparation of the EA. A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was signed in July, 2013, and is available on this site. Changes to the EA/AEF are included as Errata in the FONSI. Substantive comments and the NPS' responses are also included in the Errata.
Contact Information
Christopher ZieglerChief of Resource Management
chris_ziegler@nps.gov
406-638-3221