Grangeville Smokejumper Base - Environment
Grangeville sits at 3,000 feet on the Camas Prairie in North-Central Idaho, a small community amidst an expanse of public lands, mountain ranges, wild rivers, and designated wilderness. The Camas Prairie is a prairie plateau surrounded by rugged canyons and timbered mountains. The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests to contain substantial portions of four wilderness areas: the Selway-Bitterroot…
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Grangeville Smokejumper Mission
Speed and flexibility make the Grangeville Smokejumpers uniquely suited for contemporary fire management operations. Since the beginning of the Smokejumper program, the primary mission of smokejumpers has been the rapid deployment of aerial resources for the suppression of wildland fires. As fire management policy has evolved, so has the smokejumper program. Smokejumpers now incorporate the rapid…
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Grangeville Smokejumpers
The Grangeville Smokejumpers are committed to providing a professional level of wildfire management response to public lands throughout the United States. Smokejumpers specialize in the rapid deployment of highly trained and skilled firefighters, mobilized in fixed-wing aircraft and then parachute into remote locations. Grangeville Smokejumpers specialize in unique skills, high physical fitness…
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Smokejumpers
The U.S. Forest Service has about 320 smokejumpers that work from seven bases located in following areas:Grangeville, IdahoMcCall, IdahoMissoula, MontanaRedding, CaliforniaRedmond, OregonWest Yellowstone, MontanaWinthrop, WashingtonThe Bureau of Land Management (BLM) also has smokejumpers at two bases in Boise, Idaho and Fairbanks, Alaska.Smokejumpers travel all over the country, including Alaska…
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Planes
The Forest Service uses planes of many types and sizes to manage wildland fires. Some are owned by the Forest Service, many are leased or contracted and during times of high fire activity, military aircraft may be activated. When aircraft aren’t being used to support wildland fires, they may be used for other natural resource management activities, such as conducting aerial surveys of wildlife…