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Summary of Fires in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve 1977 and 1978

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Date Issued:
1979
Summary:
The purpose of this report is to present a summary of fire statistics for the years 1977 and 1978 for Everglades National Park and the Big Cypress National Preserve. It is essential that an annual report be continued in future years to make fire records more easily accessible. Big Cypress National Preserve is just being acquired and fire management is just beginning in the Preserve. Big Cypress National Preserve acquired 353,000 acres during 1977. The additional 216,500 acres will be added to Big Cypress for fire management when 60% of the land is purchased, possibly by 1980. The Florida Division of Forestry will retain fire control responsibilities for this acreage until transfer to the National Park Service is completed.
Title: Summary of Fires in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve 1977 and 1978.
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Alternative Title: Report (South Florida Research Center); T-565.
Name(s): Taylor, Dale L., creator
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Technical Report
Date Issued: 1979
Publisher: National Park Service, South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park,
Extent: 16 pages
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this report is to present a summary of fire statistics for the years 1977 and 1978 for Everglades National Park and the Big Cypress National Preserve. It is essential that an annual report be continued in future years to make fire records more easily accessible. Big Cypress National Preserve is just being acquired and fire management is just beginning in the Preserve. Big Cypress National Preserve acquired 353,000 acres during 1977. The additional 216,500 acres will be added to Big Cypress for fire management when 60% of the land is purchased, possibly by 1980. The Florida Division of Forestry will retain fire control responsibilities for this acreage until transfer to the National Park Service is completed.
Identifier: FI13081002 (IID), 3362038 (digitool), fiu:29816 (fedora)
Subject(s): Forest fires--Florida--Big Cypress National Preserve--Statistics.
Prescribed burning--Florida--Everglades National Park--Statistics.
Prescribed burning--Florida--Big Cypress National Preserve--Statistics.
Forest fires--Florida--Everglades National Park--Statistics.
Everglades National Park (national park)
Big Cypress Swamp (swamp)
1977-1978
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362038
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Host Institution: FIU