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Fire Management
Fire Management
Fire plays a natural role in the Ashley National Forest and Uinta Mountain/Tavaputs Plateau ecosystems. It promotes vegetative and wildlife diversity and eliminates heavy fuel accumulations that can lead to catastrophic wildfire if not removed. Wildland fire plays an important role in establishing vegetation characteristics such as species composition, stand structure, and as a disturbance pattern across landscapes. It can also affect or be affected by other disturbances such as insects, disease, invasive plants, grazing and logging activities
Forest fires can either be planned or unplanned. Planned, or prescribed, fires are employed for fuels and/or resource benefit purposes. Unplanned fires are ignited by natural causes (such as lightning) or humans (such as campfires not extinguished thoroughly). While natural causes cannot be escaped, human causes can which makes it important to always be aware of your fire and only start fires in designated areas.
Local Fire Information
The Uintah Basin Interagency website hosts a lot of great fire information such as incident information, fire restrictions, preparedness levels, weather outlooks, and resources that are specific to the local arrea.