Community Wildfire Defense Grants: A Round Three Application Primer
LAST UPDATED: 11/21/24 Editor’s note: This post is designed to help communities navigate the third round of applications for the Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) Program. This post was originally published on October 31, 2024 and has been updated with links and new information as more information has been released. As always, the best source…
Voces del Fuego (Voices of Fire)
Editor’s note: The Watershed Research and Training Center (WRTC), based in Hayfork, CA, is the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network’s umbrella organization. In this blog, WRTC shares the launch of a recent film about a prescribed fire training exchange (TREX) held in Spanish and hosted by WRTC in northern California in the fall of 2023….
The 2024 Reader Survey
We love our readers. We strive to ensure that the time you spend reading and responding to our blogs, newsletters, social media posts, and more is well spent, and gives you access to the information and resources you need. Part of making sure we’re delivering on that goal is to hear your feedback about the…
Untrammeling the Wilderness
Editor’s note: Clare Boerigter is the Wilderness Fire Research Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute (ALWRI), part of the U.S. Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. Clare is working with ALWRI Research Ecologist Dr. Sean Parks and collaborators Dr. Jonathan Long (U.S. Forest Service), Dr. Jonathan Coop (Western Colorado University), Dr. Melanie Armstrong…
A Shared Love for Community-Led Fire: The 2024 PBA Leader’s Exchange in California
Editor’s note: Annie Leverich is the communications manager for FAC Net, and manages the Fire Networks blog and TREX/WTREX social media channels. She is also active in supporting communications around cultural burning and prescribed fire in California, where she lives. In early June 2024, Annie traveled to Hopland, CA to attend the California Prescribed Burn…
Parmer Lane Fire: An Accidental Success Story
Editor’s note: Kari Hines, Firewise Coordinator and Public Information Officer for Texas A&M Forest Service, has 10 years experience responding to wildfires in Central Texas and beyond. In this blog, Kari recounts the initial understanding of the Parmer Lane Fire near Austin, Texas, and how the impacts were less severe than anticipated for a wildfire…
How Wildfire Policy Hits the Ground
Editor’s note: Emery Cowan is a program manager with FAC Net and helps support our engagement in the Forest Service’s Community Navigators initiative. In this blog, Emery recaps common themes that have emerged through our Community Navigators work and from a three-part peer learning series we co-hosted focused on practitioner experiences of how the recent…
Eight Blogs You May Have Missed From the Last Year
This week marks one full year since we rebranded the blog to the “Fire Networks Blog.” Previously known as the FAC Net Blog, this change was made with the intention to represent the work and voices of practitioners across the suite of efforts in the Fire Networks partnership (Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, Fire Learning…
Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges: Recent Updates from the Field
Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (known as TREX) are experiential burning experiences that take place around the country and world. The TREX program, one of the four Fire Networks, represents a cooperative burning model that has flexibility to include fire practitioners from many backgrounds and levels of experience. Learn more about the TREX program on the…
Practitioner Wellbeing Resources from the Archives
This week, we’re sharing a selection of posts from the recent blog archives that cover topics related to mental health and wellbeing in the fire community. Take a moment to review these resources and consider how they may apply to you, whether as a practitioner, a supervisor, a first responder, or just a human being….
