prescribed fire

Fueled by Balance: Meet Sami Schinnell

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.

U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier Visits Prescribed Burn in Roslyn

U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier Visits Prescribed Burn in Roslyn

Congresswoman Kim Schrier, MD, an original sponsor of the bipartisan National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021, visited Cascadia TREX this week to see prescribed fire in action.

Make Your Voice Heard: Tell Lawmakers to Support Designated Fire Funding

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.

Local Leadership on Display at This Year’s Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)

Local Leadership on Display at This Year’s Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)

The TREX program does what no one else is doing in fire management: It provides a cooperative burning model that meets the needs of diverse entities, private landowners and the community—incorporating local values and issues to build the right kinds of capacity in the right places.

Bringing good fire onto McNary National Wildlife Refuge with Cascadia 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

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

"Good Fire" Training Returns to Central Washington

Fighting fire with fire: Prescribed fire training returns to the Central Cascades this month. Firefighters and managers from nine organizations will learn how to apply prescribed burns safely to better manage our forests for health and resilience.

Resilient Forests, Resilient Communities

Resilient Forests, Resilient Communities

A bill in the state Senate would fund much-needed wildfire prevention, suppression and preparedness activities, investing in the health of Washington’s iconic forests and the resilience of our communities.

These Are Our Top Policy Priorities for Washington in 2019

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.   

Urge Congress to Support the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act

Urge Congress to Support the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act

The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act would allow the Forest Service to access disaster funding rather than having to "borrow" from its regular forest health accounts to fight wildfire. Learn how you can support the effort.