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…
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…
