Symposium may lead to pilot program to fight fires here

Map shows three years worth of public lands fires in the United States. The largest concentration is in the Snake River Plain.

Tedd Hoffman of Mountain Home is helping lead an effort to battle rangeland fires in Elmore County.

Hoffman is chairman of the Resource Management Plan subgroup of the Bureau of Land Management's Regional Advisory Council.

In that capacity, he has helped put together a symposium that will bring experts in fire management together for a two-day series of discussions and workshops designed to develop a pilot program that will focus on reducing the frequency of and the extent of damage from wildfires.

If the plan is approved, a five-year pilot program would be developed for the area roughly from Mayfield to Hammett.

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