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) and cooperative burns provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for fire management and offers professional fire practitioners a more holistic perspective—while implementing treatments…
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…
TREX Toolkit: Burn Unit Host or Landowner
Toolkit for Burn Unit Hosts and Landowners 1. Frequently Asked Questions 2. TREX Process 3. Managing Liability During TREX 4. Prescribed Burn Contract 5. Sample Fire Management Forms 6. MOU…
TREX Toolkit: Organizer
Toolkit for Organizers Frequently Asked Questions TREX Process Required Acknowledgment Language and Post-Event Data Reminder Integrating Non-Traditional Firefighters Managing Liability During TREX Learning Tools Forms and waivers TREX organization documents…
TREX Toolkit: Participant
