Recomendaciones para el Manejo del Fuego en Áreas Naturales Protegidas
In Memory of Victor Negrete
From Mary Huffman’s draft dissertation – June 8, 2010
Appendix 3.F. Recommendations for Fire Training in Mexico's Protected Natural Areas.
A fire training program that could work well in Mexico's wide variety of Protected Natural Areas (PNAs) should come from careful answers to the following ten questions:
- What is the mission of the managing agency, in this case CONANP, and the specific purpose of each PNA in reaching CONANP's mission?
- How does fire fit into the agency's mission in each PNA?
- Are the ecosystems of the PNA fire-dependent, fire-influenced (including fire-sensitive) or fire independent (Myers 2006)?
- Do the ecosystems currently need more, less or different kinds of fire?
- Who or what controls the fuel accumulation process?
- Who or what controls the ignition process?
- Who or what controls the fire spread process?
- Who or what controls the extinguishment process?
- Where do the knowledge and resources lie to alter these four processes?
10. What changes will the future probably bring to these processes?
For purposes of illustration, I will assume that in each ecosystem there are government representatives, researchers and local residents that can provide suitable answers to questions one through four. I will focus my recommendations on how to use questions five through ten as a new method to analyze fire problems and pinpoint fire training needs at the site level (Figure 3.15 repeated below). At first this process will seem laborious, but if used diligently, it will ensure that training is properly targeted for maximum effectiveness. I will use the pine-oak forests at La Sepultura Reserve as my example, since that is ecosystem and the PNA I know best.
Recordando el trabajo de Víctor Negrete, Mary Huffman nos comparte algunos lineamientos a considerar para el Manejo del Fuego en ANP. Conoce la información completa descargando el documento anexo (la información esta en Inglés).
