Fire Prevention Information


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PUBLIC COMMENT REQUESTED

WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

An Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Wildland Fire Management Program on the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is available for your review and comment (click on attachment below) or at the following locations:

Refuge Office
Milton Library
Prime Hook NWR Fire Management Plan Environmental Assessment

It is a policy of the Department of Interior (620 DM 1) that all areas with burnable vegetation have a fire management plans (FMP). Prime Hook NWR currently manages wildland fire under the guidance of a FMP approved in 2002. At that time, the staff of Prime Hook NWR developed an EA to analyze alternative strategies for the wildland fire management program. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service policy requires that FMPs be reviewed annually and updated every five years as needed to incorporate changes in operations or policy that may have occurred in the intervening years.

The EA has been updated and explores methods in which the Service can carry out policies consistent with refuge management objectives and analyzes the foreseeable impacts that can reasonably be attributed to the alternative methods. The National Environmental Policy Act requires public participation. The Service is currently seeking public comments on the environmental assessment of Prime Hook NWR’s fire management program.

Mailed comments may be submitted to:

Refuge Manager
Prime Hook NWR
11978 Turkle Pond Rd.
Milton, DE 19968

Electronic input/comments may be submitted to: fw5rw_phnwr@fws.gov

Deadline for Comment Period: February 10, 2009

For further information, please contact: Michael Stroeh, Refuge Manager at 302-684-8419

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