Red Lake Fire Program
The Red Lake DNR fire program is one of the most active tribal fire programs in the country. The fire program is directed by a Wildland Fire Operations Specialist who is supported by twelve full-time seasonal firefighters, three dispatchers, two heavy equipment operators,and a fuels specialist. Emergency firefighters may be hired during temporary, high fire danger conditions. In 2008, the reservation had 228 fires, with 1,772 acres burned. The fire crew also completed 27,130 acres of prescribed burns.
Prescribed Burn - 2009
Red Lake Fuels Program
The Red Lake DNR fuels program, funded under the National Fire Plan since 2001, uses prescribed fire and mechanical methods to reduce hazardous fuels and help meet tribal objectives in the restoration and maintenance of a healthy forest ecosystem on the Reservation. The goals of the fuels program are; to reduce hazardous fuel loading in areas around housing projects, to protect pine plantations, to restore beneficial prescribed fire into the ecosystem where appropriate, and to remove fuels along roadsides where human-caused wildfire has historically been a problem.
Prescribed Burn by Helicopter -2010
