Past Events

Natural Areas Conference

Join us for the 2017 Natural Areas Conference, where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains in Colorado’s Front Range. The 44th annual Conference will be held at the Hilton Fort Collins, on the edge of the Colorado State University Campus. Colorado’s natural areas offer numerous models for successful conservation and collaboration, including the Fort Collins…

Women in Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange

Following the success of the first WTREX last fall, women and men will again explore the growing role of women in fire management, while conducting prescribed fire operations designed to advance their formal qualifications in wildland fire management and enhance their understanding of fire ecology and effects, communications and outreach, prescribed fire policy and planning, and more. The…

Modeling dynamic fuels: MoD-FIS in the Great Basin and southwestern US

This webinar presents LANDFIRE's Modeling Dynamic-Fuels with an Index System (MoD-FIS), which supports the need for fire behavior fuel model grids to predict fire behavior, during drought or seasonably dry conditions. These provisional products have been released for the Southwest and Great Basin regions, and are ready for testing and review by those who use LANDFIRE data.  In this…

Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System: MoD-FIS in the Great Basin & Southwestern U.S.

This webinar is co-hosted by LANDFIRE and members of the Joint Fire Science Program: Great Basin Fire Science, Southwest Fire Science, and Northern Rockies Fire Science. Content will address challenges that managers of large landscapes deal with in these regions.

The LANDFIRE Program strives to produce consistent fire behavior fuel model grids for the U.S. These models are relevant for…

Fall 2017 Klamath River Prescribed Fire Training Exchange

Please find attached the Fall 2017 Klamath River Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) announcement with details about the online application process, training requirements, and much more. We are excited to carry on this grassroots effort to bring good fire back to the Western Klamath Mountains through creating co-ownership of fire on our landscape.

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Rangeland Fire Protection Associations: Fire adaptation and relationships in OR and ID

This webinar presents an overview of RFPAs, which are unique partnerships wherein ranchers and the BLM work together to suppress rangeland wildfires. Using four case studies in Oregon and Idaho, Emily Jane Davis, Oregon State University, discusses the value and outcomes of this approach, as well as challenges and future implications for fire adaptation on the range.

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Umpqua Prescribed Fire Training Exchange

This TREX, co-hosted by the BLN, USFS, TNC, Lomakatsi and other partners, will take place in the Umpqua Basin of Oregon. Applications are due June 30.

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Cascadia Prescribed Fire Training Exchange

Participants in this central Washington TREX will engage in hands-on training in the ecology of fire-adapted ecosystems, communications and community outreach, prescribed fire monitoring, operational assignments, prescribed fire use, and collaboration among a diverse array of participating individuals and organizations. Applications are due July 28.
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Establishing the Tribal Mitigation Planning Framework

FEMA Region 10 supports 271 tribes of which many have proactively developed a tribal mitigation plan. Tribal mitigation planning provides the framework for a multidisciplinary approach to natural hazards risk reduction. Join the FEMA Region 10 Mitigation Planning team as we provide an overview on tribal mitigation planning and guest speakers discuss how their respective tribes have approached…

The Science of Budgeting Fire Programs

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