When: May 12-13, 2025
Where: Kittitas County Armory in Ellensburg, WA
Who: People working on post-fire recovery in WA, we aim to improve how watersheds, working lands, communities, infrastructure, and people recover from wildfire. This includes recovery readiness planning, actions taken during the fire, and in the months to years following. We’re all in this together.
To apply to the 2025 Central Oregon TREX program, please complete this online form. The application should take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
2024 brought another major fire season to California, and more reminders of the interconnectedness across fire, water, and fish.
The ANREP National Extension Wildland Fire Initiative or "NEWFI" is pleased to announce that NEWFI and its partners will be hosting a peer-learning exchange on wildland fire this spring 2025 in Wawona, CA, Yosemite's Historic Town.
IGNITE Prescribed Fire Skills is a training for all who want to learn about the intentional use of fire for healthy landscapes and safer communities. Experienced instructors will teach hands-on skills including: weather monitoring, equipment use, ignition techniques, and burn planning.
Fighting Wildfire In A Changing World.
Communities in the WUI are experiencing unprecedented threats and from wildfires. The old rules have changed, and first responders, practitioners, and land managers are the fire service is facing a year-round fire season that’s pushing them to their limits.
Join us in Sacramento, CA to learn from your peers, grow your network and develop as a forestry professional.
Background: The increasing size and severity of western U.S. wildfires in recent years has generated greater attention towards post-wildfire response and recovery. Post-fire governance requires coordinating response and recovery capacities across jurisdictions, landscapes, and time scales.
This research builds from existing scholarship to highlight the important role social complexity plays on managing and mitigating wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface.
Background: Prescribed fires play a critical role in reducing the intensity and severity of future wildfires by systematically and widely consuming accumulated vegetation fuel. While the current probability of prescribed fire escape in the United States stands very low, their consequential impact, particularly the large wildfires they cause, raises substantial concerns.