SFRC-84/01 Summary of Fires in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve
Doren RF and Rochefort RM. 1984. SFRC-84/01 Summary of Fires in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve. SFRC 84/01. South Florida Natural Resources Center. Homestead, Florida
Fire records and summaries are proving to be more and more valuable with time. Concern about the economics of fire management and increasing use of historical fire records by resource managers in establishing and implementing state-of-the-art fire management programs are principle reasons. Documentation of fire parameters, conditions, expenditures, etc. is of great value to resource management and research personnel. Such reports are necessary to the establishment and implementation of fire management programs and to the interpretation and comparison of former and existing conditions. Fire statistics for the 1981 calendar year for Eve~glades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve are presented herein (Table 1 and 2). The 1981 fire season is the third full year of NPS fire management responsibility for Big Cypress, and the thirty-fourth year for' Everglades. Everglades National Park fire records from 1948-1979 are included in Taylor (1981a) currently under revision. These records, combined with the 1978, 1979, and 1980 summaries (Taylor 1980, Taylor and Doren 1982), include all records to date for both park areas.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Doren, Robert; Rochefort, Regina
- Date of Issue
- 1984-06
- Publisher
- South Florida Natural Resources Center
- Units
- BICY , EVER
- Keywords
- Big Cypress, everglades, FIRE, SFNRCTRS