RESOURCES
SMOKE MANAGEMENT
Clean air is important, and no one likes smoke. Even small amounts of smoke can be harmful to people with sensitive health, including infants, people over 65, and those with heart and lung disease.
PRESCRIBED FIRE
Fire is an important part of any ecosystem. Prescribed fire, sometimes referred to as a “controlled burn,” is a term used to describe fires set by land managers in order to achieve some management goal.
WORKFORCE
Fire Training Exchanges (TREX)
Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) and cooperative burns provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for fire management and offers professional fire practitioners a more holistic perspective—while implementing treatments that support community and landscape objectives.
The TREX strategy does what no one else is doing: it provides a cooperative burning model that services the needs of diverse entities, including federal and state agencies, private landowners and contractors, tribes, academics and international partners—while incorporating local values and issues to build the right kinds of capacity in the right places.
The key focus of TREX is promoting the spread of effective cooperative burning—helping diverse partners leverage skills, resources, and staff in ways that maximize opportunities for outreach, treatment, and training. TREX works on this at the local level but also supports nationwide coaching and training to advance prescribed fire capacity and training at a larger scale through the TREX Coaches Network, which coalesced in 2016 around a core of committed TREX organizers and leaders. This network is dramatically expanding the reach of the TREX strategy by mentoring and linking practitioners who are in—and moving into—leadership roles.
FOR LANDOWNERS
Planning a Prescribed Fire:
A Regulatory Flowchart
