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- Locations: Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Everglades National Park, Glacier National Park, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
For those who hike America’s thousand plus-mile national trails end-to-end, the benefits transcend the risks. But the effects of a warming world challenge even the most intrepid.
Smoke Management
- Yosemite National Park
Cascade Fire: Right Fire, Right Place, Right Time
- Locations: Yosemite National Park
The Cascade fire, started by lightning in a wilderness area of Yosemite in June 2012, was not actively suppressed. It would lightly burn for five months and become the right fire, in the right place, at right time. The only action that firefighters took was to construct a half-mile check line. Park staff took advantage of educational opportunities as smoke was visible from several locations. The fire burned 1,705 acres, and cost approximately $200/acre to manage.
- Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Multiple Benefits of Prescribed Burning at Chickasaw National Recreation Area
- Locations: Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Chickasaw NRA has conducted a series of prescribed burns to help remove previously thinned eastern red cedar. This tree creates a wildfire hazard, takes over native tallgrass prairie, impairs local air quality by producing allergens, and can draw down the water table. Under natural conditions eastern red cedar is limited by periodic natural fires. The work helps meet the NPS goals of maintaining and restoring landscapes and creating fire-adapted human communities.
Last updated: November 1, 2017