Prescribed fire
Careful use of Prescribed Fire is an effective way to remove fuel from your property. Burning (hand or mechanically stacked) piles or broadcasting fire across the landscape can safely reduce fuel stocking and mimic natural wildfire processes. While there are risks, many can be mitigated by planning and working with your local fire agencies.
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UCANR hosts workshops on prescribed fires. Please see check here for upcoming workshops.
UCANR also has a new fire website that includes information on prescribed fire.
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The Northern California Prescribed Fire Council is a venue for practitioners, state and federal agencies, academic institutions, tribes, coalitions, and interested individuals to work collaboratively to promote, protect, conserve, and expand the responsible use of prescribed fire in Northern California's fire-adapted landscapes.
The Southern Sierra Prescribed Fire Council's mission is to serve as a venue for practitioners, state and federal agencies, academic institutions, tribes, non-governmental organizations, coalitions, and interested individuals to work collaboratively to promote, protect, conserve, and expand the responsible use of prescribed fire and cultural fire in the southern Sierra Nevada’s fire-adapted landscapes and fire-dependent landscapes, and to promote public understanding and acceptance on the ecological and cultural importance of burning.
The Central Coast Prescribed Fire Council's mission is to provide information and education about the role of fire and smoke in the ecosystem, provide a forum for discussions in the art and science of prescribed fire and fire protection policies optimizing the use of integrated fire management and increasing private and agency prescribed burning capacity, pace, and scale through landowner assistance and facilitation of safe fire and smoke burn prescription development, coordination of safe prescribed burns, and sponsorship of live fire training and fire management education.
The Nature Conservancy's Fire Learning Network (FLN) engages dozens of multi-agency, community-based projects to accelerate the restoration of landscapes that depend on fire to sustain native plant and animal communities. By restoring this balance, the ecological, economic and social values of the landscapes can be maintained, and the threat of catastrophic wildfire can be reduced. Collaborative planning, implementation, adaptive management and the sharing of lessons learned are at the core of the FLN. Workshops, peer learning and innovative fire training through Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges? (TREX) are just a few of the mechanisms the network uses.
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