Prescribed Fire Training

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Fire Training Courses

Fall 2020

• Oct 3, 2020, Weekend of Restoration XVII: Fire, the Great Transformer
  Sep 25, 2020: Last day for standard registration
  Lost Valley Visitor CenterRoute 31 & Harts Road
  Ringwood, IL, 60071
  8am to 5pm
  
• 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 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 9/2020