provide decision support to aid
managers in making informed
decisions on the management of
wildland fires.

 There needs to be a Fire Management Plan
for every area that could potentially have wild
fire on it.

 Introduction
 Policy
 Resource Management Planning
 Fire Management Area Description
 OperationalGuidance
 Unplanned ignitions Preparedness
 Planned FuelsTreatments
 Prevention, Mitigation and Education

 Introduction
 The intent of this Chapter is to introduce the reader to
the area covered by the FMP.
 State the reasons for developing the FMP.
 Provide a general description of location of the area
covered by the FMP with vicinity map and agencies
involved.
 Identify areas of different management designations
(e.g. wilderness, timber harvest areas, research
natural areas, cultural/religious areas, habitat
management areas)

 Fire Policy
 Identify sources of guidance and direction
that relate to actions described in the FMP.
 These may include unit specific policies (e.g.
tribal direction, local land management
planning, etc.) , kebele, regional or national
policies.

 Describe fire management related goals,
objectives, standards, guidelines, and/or desired
future conditions that apply across the entire
area
 Examples of these goals, objectives, standards,
guidelines, and desired conditions are:
 o firefighter and public safety,
 o using fire to maintain pastoral health,
 o desired plant community composition and structure

 physical and biological description (e.g.
topographic features, fuel types, special
conditions that may result in extreme fire
behavior, access, Fire Regime , high value
concerns, special areas),
 jurisdictional boundaries (e.g. adjacent or
intermingled federal, private, tribal, state,
county ownership),

 communities and other values at risk to
include: Threatened & Endangered species,
cultural concerns, areas of special concern,
water quality, invasive species, infrastructure
(powerlines, fences, etc.)
 fire behavior and weather descriptions , past
fire behavior and perimeter histories, control
problems.

 Areas within the plan can be further divided
into smaller areas if there is enough of a
difference in how that land is effected by fire
and actions you would take on that land
would be different.
 Smaller areas within a Fire Management Plan, Fire
Management Units.

 preparedness (including training,
qualifications, readiness),
 cooperative or mutual aid fire management
agreements,
 size up, initial response and extended
response procedures,
 EarlyWarning procedures
 records management,
 A plan to keep track of fires and to share that
information

 Water sources
 Communication Plan
 Available Resources
 Equipment
 Personnel
 Available Maps
 Access Routes
 Detection
 How to ask for and get assistance

 Use of SatelliteTechnology
 Use of Local Community
 Use of Patrols
 Detection can be a part of EarlyWarning
 Use of aircraft
 Others?

 Describe or reference planning and implementation
processes for fuels treatments by mechanical,
chemical, biological or prescribed fire methods.
Procedures to be included are dependent on local
needs.
 Examples include:
 procedures for implementing prescribed fire
(requirements for development of burn plan,
responsibilities for preparing and approving
prescribed fires)
 local coordinating or special interest groups,
 Many of these topics may already be addressed in
other parts of your forestry management practices

 4.4. Prevention, Mitigation and Education
 Prevention Plan
 human caused ignition patterns and
problems,
 community involvement
 education programs,

 Questions?