Department of Natural Resources. Lone Peak Conservation Center

"Lone Peak Conservation Center was initially formed in 1978 to provide outside rehabilitative work for inmates at the Utah State Prison, and to meet forestry and fire control statutory responsibilities. Funding constraints and new standards for security and certification for worker safety required a change away from inmate employment.

"In the year 2000, the Lone Peak Conservation Center expanded its professional fire management service, by organizing several state agency forestry fire crews and college internships for wildland fire fighters. This new strategy complemented the National Fire Plan’s efforts to reduce fire hazards in the wildland urban interface and improve forest health through the Healthy Forests Initiative.

"Lone Peak Conservation Center hires more than 100 state employees to fight wildfires, reduce hazards to communities at risk of fire, and improve forest health." ("About Us-LPCC," Lone Peak Conservation Center website, http://lonepeak.utah.g v/lpcc/about-us-lpcc; downloaded 21 August 2014.)