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 178: Rogue Valley Prescribed Burn Association: Increasing Community Support for Fire Through Participation
Together with the Applegate Partnership and Watershed Council and the Oregon State University Extension Service Fire Program, and with support from the Fire Learning Network, the Nature Conservancy and others,…
Notes from the field 176: The Pulaski Club: Training the Next Generation
Led by math teacher and wildland firefighter Bryan Kerns since 2018, the Dobyns-Bennett High School Pulaski Club offers high school students a unique opportunity to gain real world experience on…
Notes from the Field 175: What’s Lighting Us Up Wildland Fire Training from The Ember Alliance
In partnership with Front Range Community College and Aerie Backcountry Medicine, training staff from The Ember Alliance (TEA) have been putting on a unique blend of National Wildfire Coordinating Group…
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…
The Fire Manager’s Guide to Blue Ridge Ecozones
The Southern Blue Ridge Mountains can provide an ensemble you wonʼt hear at a backyard bird feeder. Pine warblers, chestnut-sided warblers, indigo buntings and yellow-breasted chats are a chorus everyone…
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 Scaling Our Network
The PERFACT partnership uses a nuanced suite of strategies to support activities that will lead to more sustainable fire management systems and improve fire outcomes for people and nature. Two…
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…
