Heart of the Appalachians Fire Learning Network Strategic Plan 2021-2026
This plan outlines the strategies and actions identified by partners in the Heart of the Appalachians Fire Learning Network (HOA FLN) landscape. The HOA FLN works to promote ecosystem health…
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…
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…