Pine Mountain Trail Association, state officials agree to delay burns at FDR State Park

The fire on the mountain has been put off.

An agreement between the state and the Pine Mountain Trail Association will delay a prescribed burn previously set for early 2011 on 1,478 acres of Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park.

The controlled burn intended to protect and expand the park's stands of longleaf pine trees will be postponed until a long-range management plan is revised.

The trail association long has protested that widespread burning damages the park's hardwoods and blackens the trail and its campsites, discouraging hikers.

This story was originally published December 16, 2010 at 1:40 PM with the headline "Pine Mountain Trail Association, state officials agree to delay burns at FDR State Park."