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…
Focus on Prescribed Fire Capacity
The U.S. wildland fire workforce is stretched thin— at both the institutional and personal levels. At the same time, the need to increase the use of prescribed fire has never…
TREX Fact Sheet
Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for fire management and offers professional fire practitioners a holistic perspective—while implementing controlled burns that support community…
Notes from the Field 166: Onward: The Native Stewards of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust and CAL FIRE Burn Together
This piece was written before the CZU Lightning Complex fire on California’s central coast, which burned over 86,000 acres. We would like to acknowledge the communities impacted, the tireless work…
Notes from the Field 169: Getting Started: How One New Mexico Couple Found Fire
We live in the Sacramento Mountains in southern New Mexico, and our home is in the tinderbox called Cloudcroft. We’ve watched the fuel load grow with each passing year as…
2017 Report: Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges and Cooperative Burning. Experiential training events in support of landscape restoration and resiliency, fire adapted communities and workforce capacity-building. This report briefly covers events from spring 2017
This spring, TREX teams mobilized for eight events that ran a total of 90 days. All told, 318 people built their skills and fire networks, and accomplished 14,437 acres of…
2017 Report: Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges and Cooperative Burning: Experiential training events in support of landscape restoration and resiliency, fire adapted communities and workforce capacity-building. This report covers events the fall 2017 season
In a season filled with both remarkable growth and serious challenges, the fall Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges provided training for more than 250 participants, treated more than 1,500 acres with…
2018 Report: Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges and Cooperative Burning: Experiential training events in support of landscape restoration and resiliency, fire adapted communities and workforce capacity-building. This report covers the spring 2018 burn season
The winter/spring 2018 burn season saw partners deliver a series of co- operative burning and training events, including seven TREX supported by the Fire Learning Network—the Yurok TREX and Butte…
