News - Tag Prescribed fire

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Official websites use .mil

A .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of Defense organization in the United States.

Secure .mil websites use HTTPS

A lock () or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .mil website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

News Search

Keyword

Type

Tag: Prescribed fire

Smoke is in the air...prescribed fire season begins on JB Charleston
January 11, 2018 — Be prepared to smell some wood smoke around Joint Base Charleston -Weapons Station this winter. Wood smoke usually indicates a prescribed fire is being conducted by the station’s natural resources personnel somewhere on the Weapon Station's 12,000 acres of managed timberlands. While smoke from a prescribed fire can be annoying, these fires are used...

Fighting fire with fire
December 14, 2016 — Wildfires in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina made big news this past November and South Carolina is no stranger to wildfires either. In 2009, just north of Myrtle Beach, 20,500 acres of forest land experienced a wildfire destroying 76 homes and damaging another 96. The 628th Civil Engineering Squadron's (CES) Wildland Fire Management Plan...