Eastern Fire Portal

The Northeastern Regional Cohesive Strategy Committee (NERSC) is redoubling its efforts to develop a document that tells “The Story of Prescribed Fire for the NE RSC Area” and has prepared a questionnaire designed to help collect data for this undertaking. This document will allow us to describe capacity, identify limitations to implementation, and describe opportunities for cooperative work with the specific objective of increasing the pace and scale of prescribed burning in the NE region.

Click HERE to fill out the Questionnaire 

For any questions on this questionnaire, please contact Larry Mastic

Responses will be compiled beginning April 1st

If your organization has already responded, there is no need to respond again, but if you are uncertain please don’t hesitate to complete the questionnaire. Please forward this message along to your partners, the region is large and we know we are missing important voices.

No single agency, organization, or landowner can adequately address complex and interrelated wildland fire challenges on its own. The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) is a collaborative approach that addresses the increasingly complex challenges of wildland fire management in the United States while striving towards the three national goals: Resilient landscapes; Fire-adapted communities; A safe and effective, risk-based wildfire response. This effort is a cross-boundary approach involving all stakeholders including federal and state land management agencies, local governments, private landowners, environmental organizations, Tribes, fire professionals, non-governmental organizations, and others. The Northeast Regional Strategy Committee (NE RSC) consists of over 40 agencies and organizations involved in wildland fire management and is dedicated to implementing the Cohesive Strategy in ways that are consistent with the needs and values across the 20 Northeast-Midwest States.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The Seasonal Preserve Assistants are responsible for invasive species control, native wetland species plantings, tree plantation maintenance, and monitoring of native plants and animals.  Work will require the use and maintenance of chainsaws, brush cutters, sprayers, herbicides, and other equipment.  This position requires strenuous field work in a variety of environmental conditions, including routinely lifting and hiking/walking carrying 25+ pounds of equipment.  A significant amount of time will focus on identifying and treating invasive species.  Participation in controlled burning is possible if the applicant is professionally qualified and there will be opportunities to travel to other regions of the state to work on a variety of projects with other teams.

In an effort to continue to promote the scholarly pursuits and graduate level training within the global wildland fire community, in 2019 the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will again be awarding two graduate-level scholarships, each valued at $3,000USD to IAWF members who are Master of Science/Arts (MSc/MA) or Doctoral (PhD) students studying wildland fire or wildland fire related topics.

We encourage applications from students studying any aspect of wildland fire be it from the perspective of physical, ecological or social science to less traditional subject areas as well: we are looking through this scholarship to recognize and support any type of research relevant to the global wildland fire community.

Included in this free class:

• A trunk and curriculum containing 40 hands-on activities for teaching about wildland fire science
• Covers physical science of combustion, fire history, succession, and fire effects on plants andanimals
• New curriculum & streamlined materials - just released
• Includes materials on fire use by Native Americans
• Lessons for elementary, middle, and high school levels

When: June 20-21, 2019.

Where: Fire Sciences Lab, Missoula, MT

Proposals for special sessions, workshops and trainings, oral and poster presentations, fire circles, and attached meetings are now being accepted.

Call for Special Sessions ~ Deadline April 1, 2019
Call for Workshops, Trainings, and Courses ~ Deadline April 1, 2019
Call for Oral and Poster Presentations ~ Deadline August 1, 2019 for Oral Presentations and August 30, 2019 for Poster Presentations
Call for Fire Circles ~ Deadline August 1, 2019
Call for Attached Meetings ~ Deadline August 30, 2019