Washington’s prescribed fire season was busy this year with two prescribed fire training exchanges carried our across the state, making for healthier lands and safer communities.
Fueled by Balance: Meet Sami Schinnell
After decades of implementing suppression policies that approached fire with fear, wildland firefighters in the United States, like Schinnell, find themselves seeking a more balanced relationship between Earth and fire.
The Role of Good Fire in Washington’s Forests
Fire & Ice: Winter Pile Burn on Cle Elum Ridge
A Brief Window for Prescribed Fire
Wildfire Haze Lingers Over Washington
Congress and Forest Service Lead on Wildfire Strategy
U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier Visits Prescribed Burn in Roslyn
Prescribed Fire Season Kicks Off in Eastern Washington
Innovative Prescribed Fire Training Comes to NE Washington for First Time
Make Your Voice Heard: Tell Lawmakers to Support Designated Fire Funding
You can support current efforts in the Washington Legislature to create a designated fire funding source to directly support forest-health treatments, help communities become fire-prepared and increase funding for firefighting equipment and personnel to help fight the large, destructive fires we’ve seen in recent years.
We Support Designated Fire Funding—Here's How You Can Help
Local Leadership on Display at This Year’s Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)
Bringing good fire onto McNary National Wildlife Refuge with Cascadia TREX
Fuel from multiple handheld drip torches ignited invasive grasses and fire spread quickly across a former farm field Wednesday, as fire professionals from many agencies worked together to conduct a controlled burn at the McNary National Wildlife Refuge in Burbank, near the Tri-Cities in south-central Washington. The exercise was part of the 2019 Cascadia Fall TREX, or Prescribed Fire Training Exchange, held Sept. 29-Oct. 11.
Putting Good Fire Back on the Land - Cascadia TREX Fall 2019
Through Cascadia TREX (Prescribed Fire Training Exchange) we’re building capacity for more prescribed fire, and learning to work together across agency and property lines. TREX offers firefighters and land managers the opportunity to get hands-on experience in all aspects of prescribed fire, including preparation, scouting, ignition, holding, mop-up and patrol. Participants train with appropriate equipment and practice fireline leadership.
"Good Fire" Training Returns to Central Washington
Resilient Forests, Resilient Communities
These Are Our Top Policy Priorities for Washington in 2019
Our priorities for the 2019 Legislature touch upon all our work, and all our lives, whether we live in the Palouse, along the coast, or in between. They include tackling climate change, protecting the natural and cultural wealth that makes Washington special, and improving equity in environmental policymaking so that all of us can benefit from cleaner, healthier air and water.