Selkirk TREX (October 2-13)

Interested in honing your skills, gaining experience and learning more about beneficial fire? Join the second Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) in northeast Washington, now called the Selkirk TREX. Come learn and burn through field trips, guest speakers, and live fire training. Learn about fire ecology, fire behavior, prescribed fire operations, burn planning, fire effects monitoring, and more. Participants will be required to have basic firefighting qualifications, equivalent to NWCG Firefighter Type 2. For questions on how to obtain these qualifications contact Kara Karboski. There will be NWCG taskbook training opportunities for FFT1, ENGB, FIRB, FEMO, PIO, and RXB2.