2.4.3. Fire and Fuels Management

Fire and fuels management in the Planning Area follows the response to wildfire management objectives in the approved District Fire Management Plan (FMP). Prescribed burns must comply with Wyoming DEQ air quality standards and smoke management rules. Hazardous fuels are to be reduced in the Wildland Urban Interface, and facilities and habitable structures are to be protected from fire. Management prescriptions include suppressing fire that threatens greater sage-grouse habitat and crucial winter wildlife habitat in Wyoming big sagebrush communities, ensuring firefighting equipment is cleaned after water sources containing high-risk aquatic invasive species are used, and implementing the district FMP to address fire management on a landscape scale and to meet desired plant community (DPC) and resource management objectives.