{"id":394836,"date":"2017-10-27T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a8cd0a297bf3fc60e21ee48f2fabb527"},"modified":"2017-10-27T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:29:32","slug":"image-prescribed-fires-set-to-forestall-wildfires-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=394836","title":{"rendered":"Image: Prescribed fires set to forestall wildfires in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are fires always bad?\u00a0 Not necessarily.\u00a0 Wildfires are almost always destructive and dangerous\u00a0since they can take out swaths of land with abandon and without any forethought.\u00a0 But prescribed fires can actually be good for the environment and for communities nearby areas that are prone to wildfires.\u00a0 In Arizona, the\u00a0National Park Service and US Forest Service fire managers, working together as the North Zone Interagency Fire Management Program, have set quite a few prescribed fires around the Grand Canyon Park area.\u00a0 Both agencies also anticipate initiating more prescribed fire treatments this week as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.\u00a0 The northern area that is seen in the\u00a0satellite image is in the KNF-GRCA\u00a0North Zone\u00a0area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are fires always bad?&nbsp; Not necessarily.&nbsp; Wildfires are almost always destructive and dangerous&nbsp;since they can take out swaths of land with abandon and without any forethought.&nbsp; But prescribed fires can actually be good for the environment and for communities nearby areas that are prone to wildfires.&nbsp; In Arizona, the&nbsp;National Park Service and US Forest Service fire managers, working together as the North Zone Interagency Fire Management Program, have set quite a few prescribed fires around the Grand Canyon Park area.&nbsp; Both agencies also anticipate initiating more prescribed fire treatments this week as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.&nbsp; The northern area that is seen in the&nbsp;satellite image is in the KNF-GRCA&nbsp;North Zone&nbsp;area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394837,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394836\/revisions\/394837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}