Focus on California
Strategic investments by PERFACT over the last dozen years are transforming California’s approach to fire management. The Fire Learning Network (FLN), Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net), Prescribed Fire…
Focus on Prescribed Burn Associations
Our fire networks are expanding the scope of fire ownership, shifting the regulatory, policy and funding environment, and changing the way communities live with wildfire. As communities throughout the nation…
Focus on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice
Diversity, equity, inclusion and justice are all big concepts on their own, let alone in combination. But the interest and vital need for exploring ideas, processes and the meaning of…
FLN Fact Sheet
The FLN helps people work together to increase the capacity and social capital needed to build ecosystem and community resilience. FLN landscape collaboratives engage in a range of multi agency,…
Forest Structure & Composition Monitoring Protocol Standard
In 2009, after several years of collaboration by partners in the Allegheny Highlands landscape of the Appalachian Fire Learning Network (FLN), The Nature Conservancy and George Washington and Jefferson National…
Report: Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Programs
This report is supported by Promoting Ecosystem Resilience and Fire Adapted Communities Together, a cooperative agreement between The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service, and agencies of the Department of the…
The Fire Manager’s Guide to Blue Ridge Ecozones
The Southern Blue Ridge Mountains can provide an ensemble you wonʼt hear at a backyard bird feeder. Pine warblers, chestnut-sided warblers, indigo buntings and yellow-breasted chats are a chorus everyone…
East Jemez Landscape Futures: A Collaborative Approach to Post-fire
The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative, landscape-scale approach to help guide future planning and research efforts in the severely altered landscapes of the eastern Jemez Mountains….
Bringing Fire and Postfire Response into Alignment: Addressing the Double Emergency of Fire and Postfire Impacts in Today’s Fire Environment
This webinar brings together a panel of postfire response experts to reflect on their experiences in addressing community needs during recent large fires. The discussion will highlight important differences in…
Hot Burns, Cold Burns, and Everything In Between: Exploring Prescribed Burning’s Impacts on Forest Structure in the Appalachians
Jean Lorber introduced FLN partners’ work looking at the variability of prescribed burn effects by mapping canopy mortality using leaf-on imagery. Three practitioners who were involved with some of those…
