Fire Management

A firefighter watches over a prescribed burn at Rice Lake Flats and helps keep it within the planned boundary. Before any prescribed fires are permitted, a park must complete a Fire Management Plan and a prescribed burn plan.

NPS/Van Tatenhove

The Fire Management Plan

 

The Fire Management Plan describes the need to continue to aggressively suppress all unplanned wildfire on NPS lands while allowing for the use of planned prescribed fire for habitat restoration and hazard fuel management. The Fire Management Plan and appendices are available upon request by contacting the St. Croix River Visitor Center in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, at 715-483-2274 or e-mail us.

Fire Management Plan

• Appendices A, B, C - References, Definitions & Species
• Appendix D - Environmental Assesment
• Appendix D - NEPA
• Appendix D - NEPA FONSI
• Appendix E - Prescribed Burn and Hazard Fuel Reduction
• Appendices F, G - Monitoring Plan and Riverway Specific

For further information on the park's wildland fire management and Great Lakes Fire Management Zone, please see the Wildland Fire Management page.