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Document
Type: Conference Paper
Coordinator(s): James K. Brown; Robert W. Mutch; Charles W. Spoon; Ronald H. Wakimoto
Publication Date: 1995
Resource management plans and objectives may be sound ecologically and within agency mandates for management, but impossible to expedite because of political considerations and obstacles. It is imperative that these be recognized in the planning processes and confronted professionally by the agency managers. Today, new questions are being asked by agencies and special interest groups regarding the natural role of fire in wilderness and park areas. The opportunity to manage fire in the ecosystem as a natural event may be offset by politically generated realities. This presentation is aimed at stimulating new thinking regarding political concerns that may enhance or detract from fire management in wilderness areas.
Citation: Hurd, E. J. 1995. Fire in wilderness and parks: political issues, in Brown, J. K., Mutch, R. W., Spoon, C. W., and Wakimoto, R. H., Proceedings: symposium on fire in wilderness and park management. Missoula, MT. USDA Forest Service, Internountain Research Station,Ogden, UT. p. 70-71,General Technical Report INT-GTR-320.
Cataloging Information
Keywords:
- ecosystem dynamics
- fire management
- natural resource legislation
- public information
- wilderness areas
- wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 23850 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: A13.88:INT-320 • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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