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…
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…
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…
2019 Case Study: A two-page case study of the development of the Forest Steward Guild’s All Hands All Lands Burn Team to support prescribed burning in northern New Mexico. TREX events and people played key roles in this process

Promoting Ecosystem Resilience and Fire Adapted Communities Together (PERFACT) is a cooperative agreement between The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior. Through the…
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…
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…
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…
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…