Focus on Post Fire
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
