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  2. 30 NC counties are currently under a burn ban. Updated map ...

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    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 ...

  3. Controlled burn - Wikipedia

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    Since 1995, the US Forest Service has slowly incorporated burning practices into its forest management policies. [ 10 ] Fire suppression has changed the composition and ecology of North American habitats, including highly fire-dependent ecosystems such as oak savannas [ 54 ] [ 55 ] and canebrakes, [ 56 ] [ 57 ] which are now critically ...

  4. Forest Service seeks safer, smarter way to burn after Hermits ...

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    That year, Forest Service Chief Randy Moore ordered a 90-day pause on prescribed burns to review fire programs across the country after two escaped burns northwest of Las Vegas, N.M., merged to ...

  5. As Forest Service wraps up 90-day pause on burns, New ... - AOL

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    On May 20, United States Forest Service Chief Randy Moore announced that the service would pause all prescribed burns in the country for 90 days. On May 20, United States Forest Service Chief ...

  6. United States Forest Service - Wikipedia

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    By 1935, the U.S. Forest Service's fire management policy stipulated that all wildfires were to be suppressed by 10 am the morning after they were first spotted. In August 1944, to reduce the number of forest fires, the Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council began distributing fire education posters featuring a black bear.

  7. History of wildfire suppression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Government land agencies, including the National Park Service, generally followed the fire management policies established by the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees the majority of the nation's forestlands. (See "The Big Burn" a 2014 PBS documentary American Experience (season 27)).

  8. Why the Forest Service is encouraging people to cut Christmas ...

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    The tree permits not only send families on expeditions that connect them with their local forests (and leave them with a festive memento guaranteed to leave needles all over the living room), they ...

  9. National Fire Danger Rating System - Wikipedia

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    Each day during the fire season, national maps of selected fire weather and Fire danger components of the National Fire Danger Rating System are produced by the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS-MAPS), located at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Montana. Current fire danger and forecast fire danger maps ...