Description: The training is organized as an incident, using a Type 3 Incident Management Team. Participants will serve in qualified and trainee firefighting positions on a burn team and will assist with preparing, scouting, briefing, igniting, holding, mop-up, and patrol on numerous controlled burns in the area.
Time pressures and distance make collaboration and coordination between extension foresters from different states challenging. The objective of this meeting is to bring together extension professionals in forestry and related disciplines from the western region and offer a comfortable, low pressure venue for sharing program ideas and potential directions for future collaboration.
ICOPFIRES will be the first international congress about prescribed fires in Europe. We aim to connect the diverse stakeholders involved in forest management (e.g.
The use of helicopter-based ignition has helped to increase the number of prescribed fire acres but the expense and complexity of air operations makes aerial ignitions inaccessible to many land managers.
You are cordially invited to the August 3rd Joint WRP Natural Resources and Military Readiness, Homeland Security, Disaster Preparedness and Aviation Committee’s webinar on Integrated Rangeland Fire Strategy (Implementation of DOI Secretarial Order 3336).
This webinar will run from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Pacific.
Objectives: To develop community capacity to safely and effectively reintroduce fire onto the local landscape. Additionally, this training will focus learning from and about the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and their traditional and contemporary use of prescribed fire.
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Steve Quarles, PH.D., IBHS Research Center
Learn about the impacts embers are capable of and the little things around the home that are vulnerable. Quarles will share some information on why and how IBHS is doing wildfire ember research at the lab in South Carolina.
Fire Ecology Research with the USDA Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Research Station, Resource Monitoring & Assessment Program - Corvallis or Portland, OR
The Firewise virtual workshop series provides conference quality, free learning opportunities for wildfire stakeholders, by connecting them with leading researchers and practitioners in a live interactive format. Each session is an hour-long and features a wildfire related topic that closes with questions received directly from participants.
The Firewise virtual workshop series provides conference quality, free learning opportunities for wildfire stakeholders, by connecting them with leading researchers and practitioners in a live interactive format. Each session is an hour-long and features a wildfire related topic that closes with questions received directly from participants.