2026年4月7日，美国林务局成员与麦考伊堡计划烧除小组在威斯康星州麦考伊堡北哨的一个靶场区域监督并执行了计划烧除作业。
该基地的计划烧除团队成员包括：麦考伊堡应急服务指导部消防局、公共工程指导部（DPW）环境处自然资源分支、计划训练动员与安全指导部，以及根据合同为基地服务的科罗拉多州立大学军事土地环境管理中心。
计划烧除还可以改善野生动物栖息地，控制入侵植物物种，恢复和维护本土植物群落，并降低发生森林火灾的可能性。计划烧除以多种方式造福环境，是可大规模用于改善野生栖息地的工具之一。
自然资源管理官员表示，计划烧除有助于遏制入侵物种并焚毁其种子库。烧除还为本土物种提供了与非本土物种竞争的机会，因为许多本土物种依赖火来刺激生长并抑制非本土物种。
麦考伊堡自2026年起启用的座右铭是：“自1909年以来训练全军并塑造未来”。
该设施的任务是：“麦考伊堡通过作为训练中心、动员力量生成设施和战略支持区，增强全军备战状态，从而提升作战人员的杀伤力，使其能够部署、战斗并赢得国家的战争。”
麦考伊堡的愿景是：“成为支持最精锐、具备战斗力且致命的武装部队的首要训练中心。”
麦考伊堡位于上中西部中心地带，是威斯康星州唯一的美国陆军设施。自1984年以来，该设施几乎每年为超过10万名各军种军事人员提供实地和课堂训练的支持与设施。
Members of the U.S. Forest Service and the Fort McCoy prescribed burn team oversee a prescribed burn April 7, 2026, at a range area on North Post at Fort McCoy, Wis.
The post prescribed burn team includes personnel with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department; Directorate of Public Works (DPW) Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch; Directorate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security; and the Colorado State University Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, under contract with the post.
Prescribed burns also improve wildlife habitat, control invasive plant species, restore and maintain native plant communities, and reduce wildfire potential. Prescribed burns benefit the environment many ways and are one of the tools that can be used on a large scale to improve wild habitat.
Natural resources management officials say prescribed burns help set back invasive species, and they burn up their seed banks. Burns also give native species an opportunity to compete against some of the non-native species, as many native species depend on fire to help stimulate them and set back non-native species.
Fort McCoy’s motto beginning in 2026 is “Training the Total Force and Shaping the Future since 1909.”
The installation’s mission: “Fort McCoy strengthens Total Force Readiness by serving as a training center, Mobilization Force Generation Installation, and Strategic Support Area enabling warfighter lethality to deploy, fight, and win our nation’s wars.”
And Fort McCoy’s vision is, “To be the premier training center supporting the most capable, combat-ready, and lethal armed forces.”
Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin. The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984.
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/fortmccoywi, and on X (formerly Twitter) by searching “usagmccoy.” Also try downloading the My Army Post app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base. Fort McCoy is also part of Army’s Installation Management Command where “We Are The Army’s Home.”
