Wildland Fire Management Sample Clauses

Wildland Fire Management. The greatest threat to natural resources in training areas is uncontrolled wildland fire. The Army works cooperatively with many agencies to prevent uncontrolled wildland fires. This is accomplished through strict training policies, vegetation management, and prescribed fires. Regular, low-intensity prescribed fires prevent catastrophic wildfires by reducing available fuels, such as dried grasses, in a planned and controlled manner. Prescribed fires also help to maintain the suitability of training areas by preventing overgrowth, maintaining usable space, and reducing the potential to start wildfires during training actions. The Wildland Fire Management Plan has protection measures in place to ensure that firefighting efforts avoid impacts to historic properties. USAG-Pōhakuloa uses managed grazing to reduce fire fuel loads in some areas of PTA.

Wildland Fire Management. The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) approved modifications to the “Interagency Strategy for the Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (2003)” on March 24, 2008. The revisions allow the ability to manage a single wildland fire for one or more objectives and or strategies. Reference Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy, dated February 13, 2009. These guidelines provide for managing individual wildfires providing all wildfire management decisions are consistent with existing Land Management Plan or Resource Management Plan. The jurisdictional agency will be responsible for funding wildland fire and the preparation of the WFDSS. Billing for assistance between federal agencies will follow guidance set in the Cooperative Wildland Fire Protection agreement using the same criteria used in suppression fires. The jurisdictional agency responsible for the fire will involve all neighboring jurisdictions in decisions to manage a wildfire that could cross property where ecological restoration is the desired outcome; the jurisdictional agency will assume responsibility for suppression costs unless agreed to otherwise in a cost share agreement. In cases where there are multiple management objectives, a cost share agreement may be negotiated on a case by case basis. Cost share agreements will be resolved by the signature Parties or if consensus cannot be reached, resolution will be elevated to the next higher level of management for resolution. The following examples demonstrate how costs might be apportioned in different situations: