Great Plains Fire Science Exchange

Prescribed Fire Rangeland Tour
2025-07-29 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | KS

LandFire Office Hour: How LANDFIRE Uses Image-Based Modeling to Map Vegetation and Update Fuels
2025-07-30 12:00 - 13:00 | KS
Speaker: Daryn Dockter, LANDFIRE Technical Lead, TSSC, EROS

NE Grazing Lands Conference
2025-08-05 08:00 - 2025-08-06 17:00 | KS

Rancher Led Field Workshop- NM
2025-08-15 - 2025-08-16 | KS
Join the New Mexico Section of the Society for Range Management for a FREE summer tour and workshop on August 15–16, 2025 in Santa Rosa, NM! This hands-on event covers key topics like livestock grazing management, virtual fencing, and prescribed burning—including a full “100% hands on” prescribed burn across 570 acres.
Ranchers, land managers, and anyone passionate about rangeland stewardship won’t want to miss this!

🗓 August 15–16, 2025
📍 Santa Rosa, NM
👨‍🌾 Rancher-led field workshop
📌 FREE to attend!

Contact Jim Armendariz at 432-803-2411 for details.

Landfire Office Hour: FUEL + (LAND)FIRE = SMOKE
2025-08-27 12:00 - 13:00 | KS
Paul Corrigan, Smoke and RAWS Coordinator, US Forest Service, Intermountain Region Partner Organization: US Forest Service

Growing Season Burn Workshop- Spring Creek
2025-09-09 13:00 - 16:00 | KS

A Landowners Perspective to Eastern Red Cedar Control
2025-09-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Colome, SD

Grassland Restoration Network Workshop
2025-09-10 08:00 - 2025-09-11 17:00 | Lawrence, KS, Lawrence, KS, United States
Join us in Lawrence, Kansas, to share insights from grassland restoration work, research, and outreach while experiencing this unique ecotone region. Small remnant prairies in eastern Kansas host exceptional levels of plant diversity, and the combination of conservation and working lands create a heterogeneous landscape relevant to many restoration opportunities and challenges. Local experts will share their knowledge of ethnobotany, plant ecology, biodiversity, microbiomes, fungi, and feedback in soil in the context of restoring grasslands. A field tour of the KU Field Station will showcase a medicinal plant garden; research on the interactive effects of climate, mycorrhizae, and biodiversity on restored prairie; and a participatory art experience that applies cultural burning in a restored grassland.
Details and registration information coming in May 2025.

Prescribed Fire Workshop and Field Day
2025-09-10 08:30 - 17:00 | KS

Fighting Fire with Fire
2025-09-17 09:30 - 16:00 | KS

Landfire Office Hour: IFTDSS & LANDFIRE
2025-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 | KS
Speaker: Phillip Graeve, Deputy Director, National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center Partner Organization: National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center

MPFC Annual meeting
2025-10-03 10:00 - 14:00 | KS
MPFC Annual Meeting 10-3-25

Prescribed Burn at Signature Bluffs Natural Area
2025-10-13 08:00 - 2025-10-17 17:00 | KS

Webinar: Science for Productive Rangelands
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00 | KS

2025 Canadian Prairies TREX
2025-10-20 - 2025-10-25 | Saskatoon, SK

17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit & 7th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference
2025-10-20 08:00 - 2025-10-23 17:00 | Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

Seasonality of fire effects on deer, turkey, and oak regeneration Webinar
2025-10-21 13:00 - 14:00 | KS

Learn & Burn Prescribed Fire Workshop and Field Day
2025-10-28 - 2025-10-29 | Custer County Fire Hall, 200 N Haynes Ave

Landfire Office Hour: Coordinating Smoke Management: Insights from Albany, Georgia’s Pilot Project
2025-10-29 12:00 - 13:00 | KS
Speaker: Holly Nowell, PhD, Smoke Science Program Director, Tall Timbers Partner Organization: Tall Timbers

2025 Fall Nebraska Wildland Fire Academy
2025-11-05 - 2025-11-07 | Ponca State Park, 88090 Spur 26 E, Ponca, NE, 68770, United States

Women Burning Prescribed Fire Workshop
2025-11-06 08:00 - 2025-11-10 17:00 | KS

MTPFC 2025 Annual Meeting Registration
2025-11-18 - 2025-11-20 | KS

Landowner Strategies for Wildlife Valuation, Grazing & Fire Preparedness
2025-11-21 10:00 - 14:30 | KS
Join us on November 21 at the Gillespie County Extension Office in Fredericksburg, TX for a one-day workshop focused on landowner tools and resources. Topics include:
✔️ Wildlife tax valuation & ag exemption strategies
✔️ Wildlife and livestock interaction
✔️ Ag law resources
✔️ Hill Country tree care
✔️ Firewise planning for your ranch
📅 Date: November 21 | ⏰ 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM | 💲 $25 per person
📍 Gillespie County Extension Office, 38 Business Court, Fredericksburg, TX
Registration deadline: November 16

KACD Annual Meeting
2025-11-23 - 2025-11-25 | KS

NIPFTC Interagency Burn Plan Workshop
2025-12-02 - 2025-12-04 | KS
Summary:
This workshop will provide an opportunity to improve and refine burn plans. Through content delivery, practical exercise, small group activity; participants will write new or edit existing burn plans building on principles discussed. This will provide continuing education on burn plan preparation to improve collective understanding of prescribed fire plans, regardless of agency. Participants should be prepared to bring computers and burn plans for review and collaborative work. Participants will receive
credit for RT-300 or continuing education credits

Intended Audience:

All are welcome

NGO, state, tribal, private, municipal,
NWCG qualifications are NOT a pre-requisite for this workshop – all are welcome
Burn Boss trainees
Newly qualified Burn Bosses
Burn plan writers
Line officers (Agency Administrators)
Fire Managers, Fuels Technicians, Fuels Specialists, and Fire Management Officers, etc.

The overall intent of this workshop is to improve focus on recognizing and preparing quality burn plans. This will improve our collective ability to reduce risk to administrators and fire managers.
Timeline:

Outreach and application: September 1st – October 15th by close of business.
Selection: Notifications by October 28th
Workshop dates: December 2-4th, 2025

Where:
Multi-hub synchronous delivery with in-person gatherings at each Hub:
• California: Monterey, CA
• Intermountain area: Boise, ID
• Northwest: Redmond, OR
• Southwest: Tucson, AZ
• Southern Area: Tallahassee, FL
• Rocky Mountain area: Fort Collins, CO
• Eastern area: Marquette, MI
Outline of the week:
• Sample DRAFT agenda items (subject to change)
– Intent, Review of Best Management Practices, Lessons Learned.
– Review of Complexity Analysis & Risk Management
– Agency Administrator communication and relationships
– Holding Plan, Contingency Plans, Wildfire Declaration
– Objectives, Prescription, fire behavior modeling (including Behave and IFTDSS)
– Ignition plans, including Aviation: Mission Aviation Safety Plan, Drone aerial ignition
planning
– Safety & Medical Plan,
– Monitoring, Smoke Management
Not all burn plan elements will be covered, though time will allow for flexibility to address in small
groups or one-on-one throughout the week.
How To Apply:

Please submit a nomination via the Learning Portal (link below), you will need to create a profile if you do not already have one.
https://www.wildlandfirelearningportal.net/course/view.php?id=4116

This process should take less than 5 minutes.

For questions, please email Phillip.graeve@usda.gov
Nominations will be approved no later than October 28th

Training-BurnPlanWorkshop

11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress
2025-12-02 08:00 - 2025-12-06 17:00 | Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, LA, United States

11th Annual NE prescribed Fire Conference
2025-12-03 08:00 - 17:00 | Kearney, NE

Landfire Office Hour: LANDFIRE Fuels Process
2025-12-03 12:00 - 13:00 | KS
Speaker: Ryan McCliment, LANDFIRE Fire Behavior Specialist, TSSC

"Do You Hear What I Hear?" - A Sensory Portrait of Wildland Fire
2025-12-11 11:00 - 12:30 | KS

Holdrege Prescribed Fire Basic Workshop at Phelps County Ag Center
2025-12-16 08:00 - 17:00 | KS
2026 Prescribed Fire Workshop Flyer
