Forest Structure & Composition Monitoring Protocol Standard
In 2009, after several years of collaboration by partners in the Allegheny Highlands landscape of the Appalachian Fire Learning Network (FLN), The Nature Conservancy and George Washington and Jefferson National…
Report: Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Programs
This report is supported by Promoting Ecosystem Resilience and Fire Adapted Communities Together, a cooperative agreement between The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service, and agencies of the Department of the…
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 164: Burning Big! A Workshop on Large Burn Implementation in the Central Appalachians
Cecil Frost has spent his career studying historical landscape fire ecology and fire-dependent species. In addition to looking at the rate at which fire returned on a landscape, he studies…
Notes from the Field 165: Lessons Learned: Air Curtain Burners
Pine needles can be burned if they are mixed in as a layer with other material. Large quantities will need to be stirred to be consumed. Alternately, smaller quantities of…
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…
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 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 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,…
