Great Plains Fire Science Exchange

Ignition Operations
2025-02-11 08:00 - 2025-02-13 17:00 (America/Chicago)
2025 S-219

11th Native Prairie Restoration/Reclamation Workshop
2025-02-12 08:00 - 2025-02-13 17:00
Website link

NE Prescribed Fire Workshop- Online Workshop
2025-02-12 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-26 08:00 - 17:00

MPFC Spring Exec Committee Meeting
2025-02-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Margaritaville Tan-Tar-A Estates, 490 Tan Tar a Dr, Osage Beach, MO, United States
MPFC DRAFT Articles of Incorporation

MPFC_Business_Meeting_Agenda_2-19-25

Central Grasslands REC Prescribed Burn Workshop- ND
2025-02-25 09:30 - 16:00
Topics

General introductions to the logistics of implementing prescribed fire
The role of the North Dakota Prescribed Fire Cooperative
How fire promotes floral expression
Impacts of patch burn grazing on grassland birds
How fire can improve livestock performance and forage nutritional value
Optimizing fire return interval and time of year for prescribed burning
How burning can improve a plant community
Rancher perspectives: implementing prescribed burns in a livestock operation
Building and sustaining a ‘Burning Culture’ in the Dakotas

Southern Missouri Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)
2025-03-03 08:00 - 2025-03-14 17:00 | Marshfield, Marshfield, MO, United States
Description: Looking for an opportunity to sharpen your prescribed fire skills? We invite you to participate in the Southern Missouri TREX, where putting good fire on the ground is just as important as providing quality training opportunities for participants.
Who can participate? Prescribed/Wildfire staff including federal, state, tribal, and non-governmental organizations, private practitioners, and higher education faculty/students. We are committed to diversity and respect for people, communities, and culture. All will be welcome!
Unfamiliar with TREX? Click here for more information: https://firenetworks.org/trex/
Registration Fee: None—this event is being sponsored through a USFS: Cohesive Strategy grant. We wish to make this training as accessible to everyone as possible.
Work Hours and Travel: Will need to be covered by your home unit.
Meals and Lodging: Both provided for the duration of the event. Lodging is shared bunk space or camping area if preferred.
Participant Requirements:
• Participants must be current and qualified NWCG-FFT2, or have completed NWCG courses S-130, S-190, L-180, ICS 100, I-700 (all of which are available for free online). Contact Ryan Gauger (rgauger@tnc.org) for more information on these trainings; verification of training is required to attend.
• Participants must have completed an arduous pack test within the past year. Completion of a moderate pack test is acceptable if coming as a TRXCM (Rx crewmember) position. A pack test will be offered to those who need one and cannot obtain one prior to the TREX start date.
• Participants must have health insurance which will cover personal injury (e.g., workers’ comp, health or travel insur ance)
• Participants must bring fire-approved boots (all leather, 8-inches tall, Vibram soles, with no steel toe). Participants should come with all appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including: a Next Generation Fire Shelter, a hard hat, Nomex clothing, all leather gloves, eye protection and canteens for up to 1 gallon of drinking water. If you do not have proper PPE, please let us know, we will work with you to find any items you do not have. Please indicate your needs on the application.
We need your help! If your agency/organization is able to provide a Type 6 Engine, crew cab truck, and/or UTV with water pumper for this event, your application will receive priority in the nomination process.
Registration: To apply, complete this nomination form by December 6, 2024 https://form.jotform.com/243055748929166
(notifications of will be sent out by mid-December)
Questions: Please contact Ryan Gauger (rgauger@tnc.org or 812-599-2562)
Event partners include: The Nature Conservancy, US Forest Service: Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri Department of Conservation, Missouri Prescribed Fire Council, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and US Fish and Wildlife Service.

2nd Annual New Mexico Tribal Forest & Fire Summit
2025-03-04 08:00 - 2025-03-06 17:00
2nd Annual New Mexico Tribal Forest & Fire Summit
Roots For The Future: Strengthening Indigenous-Led Conservation
March 4th – 6th, 2025
Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino
Mescalero, NM
287 Carrizo Canyon Rd, Mescalero, NM 88340

RT-130 Fire Refresher Great Plains Edition
2025-03-05 10:00 - 12:30
This 2.5 hour NWCG refresher course will be tailored toward prescribed fire applications in the Great Plains. Participants will have the opportunity to hear from fire practitioners representing other agencies in the region and organizations, learn about tactics and techniques used in other parts of the Great Plains, and discuss the forecast heading into the 2025 prescribed fire season. Participants will receive a certificate for completing the online RT 130 .
This course is being sponsored by the Great Plains Fire Learning Network

To register or inquire about the course, contact Chad Bladow at 402 389 0889 or email at cbladow@tnc.org with “RT 130 ” in the subject line.
Deadline to register is March 4, 2025.

Loup River Prescribed Fire Training Exchange
2025-03-16 08:00 - 2025-03-29 17:00
Loup TREX Registration 2025.docx
Loup TREX Announcement 2025

Gus T. Canales Lectureship on Prescribed Burning
2025-03-17 08:00 - 2025-03-20 17:00
Summary
Event presentations will be simultaneously delivered in-person and online via a Zoom Webinar. The prescribed burn will be recorded and made available to virtual participants within two to three weeks of the event conclusion.
For centuries, wildfires shaped the ranges of the central and western US. As one of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s five landscape management tools, prescribed fire remains one of the most ecologically and economically effective natural resource management tools. Lectureship participants will learn fire behavior and safe use through classroom discussion and hands-on experience with fire. Training and continuing education credit for the Texas Certified Prescribed Burn Manager program is included.

Please note: For certified burn managers in need of continuing education credit hours (CEUs) for re-certification, register for the one-day Continuing Fire Training on March 18, 2025. After selecting the above registration link, click the “Attendance Method” drop down to make this selection. Registration for the one-day CEU training is ONLY for certified burn managers. All other participants must attend the entire four-day lectureship.

Learning Objectives

Apply principles learned in classroom training in a hands-on prescribed burn
Understand weather factors as they affect prescribed fire
Develop a burn plan
Identify the various techniques of prescribed burning
Discuss fire behavior and how to control a fire
Recognize the effects of fire on various vegetation types
Understand the legal requirements for prescribed burning
Become familiar with safety equipment and tools needed for prescribed burning

Instructor
Allen Rasmussen, PhD

North Dakota Prescribed Burn Training
2025-03-18 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-19 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-20 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-27 08:00 - 17:00

Prescribed Fire Class
2025-03-20 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-03-25 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-03-26 18:00 - 21:00

Wildland Urban Interface Conference
2025-03-27 08:00 - 2025-03-29 17:00 | Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City, MO, United States

Boone Co Prep & Spot Fire Workshop
2025-03-29 08:00 - 2025-03-30 17:00 | Boone Co, MO, United States
Learn to Prep Workshop
Saturday will be spent learning about the various methods of prep in both grass fields, in the woods, and around structures and the best practices for implementing them! Bonus content: Defensible Space Practices for Structures!
We’ll demonstrate:

Mower Lines
Blower Lines
Disk Lines (good and not so good!)
Prepping Around Structures
Blacklining (burning out an area ahead of time to deepen control lines – if weather permits)

Spot Fire Workshop
Sunday will be the exciting live fire Spot Fire Suppression course, as seen at Shaw Nature Reserve and Collins this past spring.
Participants will learn:

Safety on the Fireline
The Wildland Fire Triangle: Fuels, Weather, Topography/Review of Basic Fire Behavior
Spot Fire Size-Up and Communication, Requesting Assistance
Proper Use of Hand Tools, Leaf Blowers, and Backpack Pumps in Fire Suppression
“Direct Attack” Suppression Strategies
Putting it all Together: LIVE FIRE, participants will fight “spot fires” lit and supervised by cadre within the burn unit we prepped Saturday!

As these are LIVE FIRE events, participants will need to bring & wear:

Leather boots (leather hiking or work boots are ideal)
Long pants – NATURAL (cotton/denim) or FLAME-RESISTANT (Nomex, etc) fibers ONLY!
Long sleeve shirt – NATURAL or FLAME-RESISTANT fibers ONLY!
Leather work gloves (preferably mid-heavy duty) – NO “mechanix”-type gloves!

Eye protection (safety glasses/goggles) is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED! Keeping smoke/embers out of your eyes is a good thing – a couple pair of safety glasses will be available to borrow.

Questions? Call or email Mark:
mark@groundedtruths.com
or call 573-889-2559

SCIENCEx Fire: Fuels Treatments in Non-Forested Systems- Rangelands, Grasslands, Shrublands & More
2025-04-03 13:00 - 14:30

Prescribed Fire Class and Live Training
2025-04-08 09:00 - 18:00

Prescribed Fire Class and Live Training
2025-05-20 08:00 - 18:00 | SDSU Oak Lake Field Station
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NE Prescribed Fire Workshop- In Person
2025-05-31 09:00 - 15:00 | Iain Nicolson Audubon Center

2025 Range Youth Camp - KS
2025-06-10 08:00 - 2025-06-13 17:00
2025 Range Youth Camp Information
When: June 10-13, 2025
Where: White Memorial Camp, Council Grove, KS
Who: Upcoming sophomore, junior and senior high school students are eligible to attend
What: Learn range plant identification, plant growth, stocking rate determinations, livestock nutrition, rangeland wildlife management, and much more!

Special items include field trips, a steak dinner, and various activities such as swimming, canoeing, fishing, and hiking.

For more information https://www.kglc.org/range-youth-camp.cfm
To register https://www.kglc.org/range-youth-camp-registration.cfm

Montana Range Days
2025-06-23 08:00 - 2025-06-25 17:00 | Miles City, MT

America's Grassland Conference
2025-06-24 08:00 - 2025-06-26 17:00
https://www.nwf.org/grasslandsconference

Landfire Office Hour: Applying Rangeland tools and concepts for fire and fuel management
2025-06-25 12:00 - 13:00
Matt Reeves, (Fuel and Forage), US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Partner Organization: Rocky Mountain Research Station

Prescribed Burn School
2025-07-07 08:00 - 2025-07-09 17:00 | Texas A&M AgriLife REsearch and Extension Center at San Angelo, 7887 N US Hwy 87 North, San Angelo, TX, 76901, United States
Event Dates and Times

Day 1 – Monday, July 7, 2025 – 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Day 2 – Tuesday, July 8, 2025 – 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Day 3 – Wednesday, July 9, 2025 – 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

About the School
Upon completion of this burn school, you will be able to;

Evaluate fuels
Describe fire behavior
Plan a prescribed burn
Identify proper equipment and safety techniques
Mitigate smoke impacts
Understand Texas laws & regulations
Evaluate potential burn sites

This school will include the field component implementing a prescribed fire and the opportunity to complete the Certified and Insured Prescribed Burn Manager (CIPBM) exam as a requirement to apply for the CIPBM license from the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA).
Any individuals who have completed the online Prescribed Burn School are welcome to attend the field day training and complete the exam. If conditions allow, the in field component will be held in the general San Angelo area each day of the school.
Location and exam details will be directly sent out closer to the start date.
Only lunch and beverages will be provided each day of the school.
