Article: Officials set largest-ever planned burn in Zion National Park in Utah.

By Mark Havnes, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 27--ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah -- After more than three years of planning and waiting for the right conditions, fire managers in Zion National Park on Sunday ignited the largest controlled burn in the park's history.

The burn, called the Clear Trap Fire, is intended to clear out combustible materials that years of fire suppression have allowed to accumulate, in order to protect an increasing number of structures on private land near the park's boundary, said Jan Passek, fire manager at Zion.

Originally proposed in 2000, the fire is intended to burn 4,400 acres of ...

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