Prescribed Fire Training

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Fire Training Courses

Spring 2020​​

• April 26-May 8, Northeast Washington TREX / Chewelah, WA    
  Save the date for this new TREX—applications will be available January 27.
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• April 27-May 8, Central Oregon TREX / Central OR    
  updated                     
  Details are in the announcement—submit applications by February 14.
  
  
• April 27-May 8, Ashland TREX / Southwestern OR    
  updated                      
  Details are in the announcement—submit applications by February 14.
  
  
• May 4-17, Northwoods TREX /Minnesota  updated                      
  Save the date, and watch for details and application materials about February 1.

Fall 2020

• Oct. 25-Nov. 6,  Southern Blue Ridge TREX / Pickens, SC    
  Save the date for the next SBR TREX. Organizers are planning both small- and large-scale burns on private, local, state and federal lands, some using aerial ignition. Application materials will be available in May.​
  
  
• ​National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center
  Emphasize actual field experience in order to increase skills and knowledge and to build confidence in the application of prescribed fire.

Midwest Fire Training

• Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council Training
• ​Michigan Prescribed Fire Council Training

Fire Field Days to Complete S130/190

Saturday, April 18 — Northwest FPD, Rockford, IL

Enrollment Form
Contact Thomas Richter to register.

Fire Education Courses

Fire Education Classes

• Chicago Wilderness Burn Crew Training
• National Wildlife Coordinating Group
  Online Training Courses S130/190​​
• Silviculture
  Silviculture Fire offers all 100 and 200 level NWCG courses​

Southern Illinois University
Instructor Charles Ruffner

• FOR 315 Fire in Wildland Management
  Fire as a phenomenon in wildland management. Topics covered are fire prevention, detection, suppression, behavior, effects, use and economics. Major emphasis is on fire control and fire ecology. Requires field trip transportation fees and supplemental expenditures not to exceed $75 per course registration.

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A 14-day workshop was designed to achieve live fire operations so participants could experience leadership opportunities in wildland fires. Doing this workshop, participants learned to manage uncontrolled wildfires on the pine savannas of Deep River Forest Reserve, Belize.

UPDATED 4/2020