Fire Management Plan

National Park Service, Acadia National Park

Examines goals, policies, and projects aimed at managing fire in the park. Contents include: Introduction; Policy compliance; Description of the park, overview, resources description, park description references; Park fire management objectives; fire management strategies, overall strategy, specific strategies, park-wide constraints on strategy options and tactics; Fire management units, delineation of fire management units, factors common to all FMU's, Mount Desert Island fire management unit, Isle au Haut fire management unit, Schoodic Peninsula fire management unit; Fire management and responsibilities, park management, fire management office, other park positions, resources advisors, agency and interagency coordination; Wildfire program, fire prevention, potential fire behavior, presuppression, emergency presuppression, fire detection, pre-attack plan, fire suppression, rehabilitation, fire mobilizations, records and reports; Management ignited prescribed fire program; Prescribed natural fire program; Air quality and smoke management; fire research and monitoring, research, inventory and monitoring; Public safety; Public information and education; Archeological, cultural and historic resources; Fire critiques and annual review plan, fire review, program review, annual plan review; Consultation and coordination, prescribed fire research burns; Appendix A - bibliography; Appendix B - historical inventory of fire-related research and monitoring programs at Acadia National Park; Appendix C - fire management program organizational chart; Appendix D - memorandum of understanding between the National Park Service and the Maine Forest Service; Appendix E - downeast district, Maine Forest Service personnel list and district map; Appendix F - memorandum of understanding between the National Park Service and the Hancock County Firefighters' Association; Appendix G - interagency agreement between the National Park Service and the United States Navy, Naval Security Group Activity, Winter Harbor; Appendix H - wildfire prevention analysis and plan; Appendix I - hazard fuels reduction/structural protection project; Appendix J - fire equipment inventory for Acadia National Park; Appendix K - fire equipment inventory for neighboring fire departments; Appendix L - wildfire readiness checklist; Appendix M - step-up plan; Appendix N - wildfire reporting procedures; Appendix O - resource management plan project requests; Appendix P - structures inventory.