A Step Beyond the Fire Podcast

First all-female crew completes historic prescribed burn at Jennings Environmental Center A prescribed burn was the frontline to history.

In a mountainous region of Indonesia, the Dayak people use wildfire to prepare their rice fields, but they fear politics and confusion over their highly controlled wildfires and the destructive wildfires in other areas of Kalimantan will soon lead to a ban on their practices.
As Michael Hill argues in the latest edition of Wildfire magazine, if the Dayak are prevented from using wildfire, as they have done for hundreds of years as part of their system of slash-and-burn field rotations, their culture and identity will collapse.
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Announcing the Wisconsin Certified Burn Boss Program! - Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council Fire community, On behalf of both the Wisconsin DNR and the Prescribed Fire Council, we are pleased to announce the Wisconsin Certified Burn Boss Program (CBBP), launching in summer 2025. This program will help to grow Wisconsin’s pool of qualified burn bosses, expanding our state’s capacity for...

Prescribed Fire Online Course
$20 to enroll https://learn.extension.okstate.edu/courses/introduction-to-prescribed-fire

Learning Objectives
- Fire for a healthy ecosystem
- Considerations for a fire plan
- Safe practices for a burn
- Best practices for land management goals

Watch videos, engage in learning activities & take quizzes.
Work at your own pace, anytime, 24/7 for up to 120 days.
Nine modules which take 30-60 minutes each to complete.

This month's Tippin Torch Tips for the Season focuses on recovery for communities hit by as they navigate seasons with damaged roads, increased fuel loads, and disrupted fire plans.
Read our Southeast Prescribed Fire Update on where we go from here:
https://sites.cnr.ncsu.edu/southeast-fire-update/2025/01/09/hurricane-helenes-impact-on-wildland-fire-where-do-we-go-from-here

Since we're talking all about this week, what better time than now to promote the next North Georgia Prescribed Fire Meeting? Mark your calendars for June 12 and join us in Jasper, GA, to learn the latest and greatest information about prescribed burning!

🚨New fact sheet alert🚨

Published last week, “Online Tools for Weather Information” is an update by Dakota Wagner, David Godwin, & Christian Fernandez to a 2018 fact sheet of the same name by Jennifer Fill and Raelene Crandall. In this fact sheet, you can find information on three online weather tools and their applications to wildland fire management.

Navigate to the link below to access the publication:

https://southernfireexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2025-3.pdf

FOR410/FR481: Resources for Prescribed Fires on Private Lands in Florida University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension outreach is a partnership between state, federal, and county governments to provide scientific knowledge and expertise to the public. The University of Florida (UF), together with Florida A&M University (FAMU), administers....