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…
Prescribed Fire Capacity Solutions Primer
In addition to organizing and hosting Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX), members of the TREX Coaches Network work in their daily jobs and home units on various ways to build…
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…
Notes from the Field Number 183: Alto Minho Traditional Fire Training Exchange, a report from the third TREX held in northwestern Portugal in February
Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) are learning exchanges designed to empower communities and professionals as they work together to safely conduct prescribed burns that benefit both human and natural communities….
SPANISH VERSION: Notes from the Field Number 182: Niobrara Valley Preserve TREX, a report on the April 2023 event from a group of international participants
El TREX de Niobrara Valley Preserve, ubicado en 42269 Morel Road en Johnstown, es un proyecto Fire Learning Network (FLN), en Nebraska, Estados Unidos, al que asistieron un grupo de…
Notes from the Field Number 182: Niobrara Valley Preserve TREX, a report on the April 2023 event from a group of international participants
The Niobrara Valley Preserve Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX), hosted by the Fire Learning Network and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Nebraska, welcomed 35 fire practitioners with a wide range…
Spanish: Notes from the Field Number 183: Alto Minho Traditional Fire Training Exchange, a report from the third TREX held in northwestern Portugal in February
Los Intercambios de Entrenamiento de Fuego (TREX) son intercambios de aprendizaje diseñados para empoderar a las comunidades y a los profesionales mientras trabajan juntos realizando de forma segura quemas prescritas…
Notes from the Field Number 181: Santa Barbara TREX—A Southern California First, a brief recap of the November 2022 training at Dangermond and Sedgwick preserves
In November 2022, The Nature Conservancy’s Dangermond Preserve and the University of California Sedgwick Reserve hosted the first Santa Barbara Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX), which was also the first…
Notes from the Field Number 180: Southern Blue Ridge Fire Fair, highlights from a public outreach event in North Carolina, with links to Learn-and-Burns
If you work in wildland fire, you are asked lots of questions about how and why. How do you conduct a prescribed fire? How do you put out wildfires? Why…
Notes from the Field Number 179: – On-Call Crews: An Early-Career Assignment, a report from a North America Fire Team on-call crew member on assignment in northern Idaho
Joaquin Pastrana recently completed an assignment on the Northern Idaho Burn Crew, based in Coeur d’Alene, as part of the North America Fire Team’s on-call burn crews project. During the…
