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Mar 18 2019 EDT

Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips

Location

Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee, FL

UPDATE: view the event brief

This training goes from March 18-29, 2019.

When the US fire management system was conceived in the early 1900s, women’s roles in the workforce were much different than they are now. Even today, women constitute a relatively small proportion of the workforce, filling roughly 10 percent of wildland fire positions and only 7 in 100 leadership roles. In recent years, there has been an increased effort to recruit women into fire, yet social and cultural challenges remain. New recruits often find the dominant fire management system to be dismissive of female perspectives and strengths, even as its increasing complexity requires fresh approaches and insights. We believe that the groups who are generally under-represented in fire, including women, have unique talents and perspectives and that they can play a critical role in advancing fire problem solving.

During the Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (WTREX), we invite participants of all genders to explore the growing role of women in fire management, while conducting prescribed fire operations designed to advance their formal qualifications in wildland fire management and enhance their understanding of fire ecology and effects, communications and outreach, prescribed fire policy and planning, and more.