GeomorphIS Team to Prepare Fire Management Plan/EA for Great Basin National Park

The National Park Service has tasked GeomorphIS and team member Wildland Fire Associates to prepare a Fire Management Plan (FMP) and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Great Basin National Park, in eastern Nevada. The NPS is required to have FMPs for all units with burnable vegetation as defined by Reference Manual 18: Wildland Fire Management — National Park Service (NPS). Recent revisions to Department of the Interior and NPS fire management policy have resulted in changes to the requirements associated with FMPs, including new formats and templates.  This, combined with rapid landscape-level changes resulting from longer and more severe fire seasons and warmer and drier climatic conditions throughout parks of the Pacific West Region (PWR), has created the need for FMP updates, including the one at Great Basin National Park. The GeomorphIS team will update the lapsed park FMP and prepare the NEPA documents needed to implement the FMP.