Projects

Draft Wildland Fire Management Plans and Draft Environmental Assessments for National Wildlife Refuges, Northeast Region, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Northeast Region

Using an interdisciplinary and interagency approach, Wildland Fire Associates is currently developing Draft Wildland Fire Management Plans (FMP) for 14 National Wildlife Refuges in the Northeast Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and drafting Environmental Assessment (EA) for six of those refuges which currently are not NEPA compliant. 

Wildland Fire Associates is using a recently revised interagency format specified by the FWS and incorporating current terminology and applicable policies, regulations and rules and refuge resource management goals.  WFA is conducting site visits at each of the refuges that include meeting(s) with an interdisciplinary staff to assist in developing and refining fire management objectives and becoming more familiar with the fuels and issues unique to the various refuges.