Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
West Virginia Division of Forestry is a government agency of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is a division of the West Virginia Department of Commerce. [1] The West Virginia Division of Forestry is responsible for regulating and maintaining West Virginia's state forests and other state-controlled forest areas.
Heavy drought conditions have fire chiefs in the Rutland area telling residents not to have any outdoor fire pits.
The wildlife management area was part of the Camp Dawson Army Training Center, owned by the West Virginia State Armory Board. [2] Briery Mountain WMA was sited on Briery Mountain, overlooking Camp Dawson and the Cheat River valley. The land had been cooperatively managed by the WV State Armory Board and the WV Division of Natural Resources ...
Olson is located at the southern end of Backbone Mountain northeast of Parsons in Tucker County, West Virginia. The southern end of Backbone Mountain is the site of West Virginia's first fire tower, originally built by the state in 1922. [1] This tower was later given to Monongahela National Forest, which replaced it in 1963 with the current tower.
This dramatic event motivated the Forest Service to organize a more effective program of fire suppression on the Mountain: fire wardens were hired, a 90-foot steel fire tower was built on Pike Knob, [16] and surveillance was undertaken 24 hours per day during the fire season. Over the next few years, local men were recruited, even compelled, to ...
The N.C. Forest Service’s ban doesn’t apply to burning within 100 feet of an occupied dwelling, where county fire marshals have jurisdiction. The Forest Service has asked the 30 counties to ...
The areas that burned in the Eaton fire in January and Bridge fire in September will remain closed, an area that makes up about 17% of the 700,000-acre forest. Both fires' closure orders are set ...
Fire regimes of United States plants. Savannas have regimes of a few years: blue, pink, and light green areas. When first encountered by Europeans, many ecosystems were the result of repeated fires every one to three years, resulting in the replacement of forests with grassland or savanna, or opening up the forest by removing undergrowth. [23]