Between his time with the NPS and ACE, Dan has had the opportunity to collaborate with numerous land management agencies, and over 60 parks, refuges and preserves across the United States. Dan’s career in conservation and land management started in 2010 with the National Park Service, where he worked for 7-years in Resource Management and Wildland Fire. Dan spends much of his time with ACE working with Project Managers and senior staff providing technical support within the restoration discipline. Following the departure of a long-time colleague, Ian Torrence, Dan took the job as the National Restoration & GIS Specialist in the summer of 2021. This means cutting down any tree species that are easier to catch fire, trees of a specific diameter, and removing any dead or down trees.ĭan started working with ACE in 2017, where he opened the doors and served as the Division Director to the former ACE-Gulf Coast Division, headquartered in Corpus Christi, Texas. Ladder fuel is a firefighting term for live or dead vegetation that allows a fire to climb up from the landscape or forest floor into the tree canopy. ACE’s part in this aspect of wildfire prevention is to remove any trees that would serve as ladder fuel. Crews performed forest thinning in beautiful, Bryce Canyon National Park, for an eight-day project.įorest thinning helps to prevent wildfires from becoming catastrophic. Each year wildfires have increased in severity and occurrences, and it has become more crucial than ever to remove the lower level fuels that allow them to become more severe.įall of 2017 proved to be a very busy time for our ACE Utah crews in regards to fuels reduction. Each project has had a similar objective in mind: wildfire prevention. ACE has taken part in multiple forest thinning projects across the Southwest over the last several years.
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