Wildland Fire Management Plan: Colonial National Historical Park

Raeburn Environmental Services

Fire management policies of the National Park Service (NPS) support Colonial National Historical Park resource management goals. An overriding goal is the restoration and/ or maintenance of the cultural scene and associated cultural resources, while providing for firefighter and public safety, protection of natural and cultural resources, and human developments from unwanted wildland fire. This Fire Management Plan contains the following program direction: To guide the decision-making process where safety, social, political, and resource values are evaluated, and appropriate management response strategies are identified for wildland fires. To provide a framework for fuels management strategies through the use of both prescribed fire and non-fire treatments. To provide a platform from which to cooperate more fully in planning and implementing a wildland fire program across agency boundaries. Program operations included in this Fire Management Plan plan are preparedness, prevention, suppression, and fuels management. Applicable resource goals and objectives are derived from approved agency resource and general management plans. The plan is organized to combine the latest scientific knowledge, including regional and local studies, with a hierarchy of policy direction from Departmental and Agency to the Federal Wildland and Prescribed Fire Management Policy (1995 & 2001), to accomplish resource and fire management goals and objectives. The intent of the plan is primarily operational in nature.