Brush fire management plan (draft) for Great Kills in Staten Island

Brush fires or wildfires can happen anywhere from urban to suburban to rural areas. You just have to brush to burn. Staten Island, one of five boros in New York City have seen brush fires in phragamite marshes on Staten Island. I referenced one such blaze in a post from Sept, 2010. A couple of months ago, I wrote here about phragmites, and invasive species and the efforts of the National Park Service to clean up the phragmite marshes in the Staten Island.

A friend of mine (Thanks!!) sent me a link to Staten Island Live (SILive) the other day. Tom Wobrleski, ne of their reporters wrote an article on Jan 5 of this year reporting on a draft Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for the east shore of Staten Island. Components of this plan include cleaning up debris from the Phragmite marshes, mowing the Phragmites a few times a year and a 150' fire break. Included in the article are some documents, two graphics showing the CWPP maps. If I am reading these documents correctly, the plan includes areas in the Great Kill National Recreation Area. I believe that the fire I wrote about in Sept. 2010 was in the Great Kill. Below are the same two documents that Wobrleski linked to in his SILive article.

Wildfire Protection Plan Maps