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A meeting for the books🔥🤭

Here’s a recap of our joint meeting with a few weeks ago! It was a blast learning about career opportunities with the Alabama Forestry Commission… Between good retirement and exciting UTV equipment, working with looks pretty good😌Thank you for coming out to speak with us!

We’ll see everyone at our next meeting! Or maybe even our next burn?👀

📢 It’s time! It’s time!

Our first meeting of the semester will be TONIGHT in Thompson Hall, Room 118 at 5pm!

We’ll be joining as the Alabama Forestry Commission speaks and shares information about job opportunities. Plus, you can pre-order your very own FireDawgs t-shirt while you’re there… just a helpful suggestion, anyway😌

We’re excited to see everyone tonight!

The wait is finally over!

FireDawgs now has club shirts open for pre-order😎

Catch us at our next meeting to purchase your very own… and to join the burn crew😌🔥

Two claps for another great meeting👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you to Carter Mascagni and HABCO for showing us the in’s and out’s of building a management plan! It was a good time🔥

We hope everyone has a safe and restful holiday break! Be looking forward to what FireDawgs has planned as Spring 2026 rolls around😌

It’s time for another meeting!

Carter Mascagni is the owner of HABCO, a habitat management company based in Mississippi. Come here him speak about practical applications for real-world habitat management🔥🦌🌳

We hope to see you there!

A little recap of our last two meetings🔥

Thank you to Todd Matthews and Rainer Nichols for joining FireDawgs for a meeting! It was awesome to hear about opportunities to burn with the MS Forestry Commission… and we also enjoyed discussing how fire seasonality affects vegetation growth for white-tailed deer🦌

Keep an eye out for our next meeting!

We had fun at our meeting Monday night!

Thank you, David Hawley, for coming to present for FireDawgs. We had a good time learning about late growing season burns and asking questions🔥

Keep an eye out for our next meeting… and maybe our next burn in the near future?👀

That’s right… We have a meeting tomorrow night!

David Hawley is the VP of New Business at Mossy Oak Properties, the founder of , a self-proclaimed pyromaniac, and an advocate for wild turkeys and their homes. He’ll present on the history of prescribed fire followed by the importance of late growing season burns. . . Something you definitely don’t want to miss out on🙂‍↕️

We’re excited for his presentation and to learn more about prescribed fire🔥 We hope to see you there!

📢 Introducing our Social Media Manager for the 25-26 school year. . . Emily Boyd!

This summer, Emily interned at a church in Salmon, Idaho. While she wasn’t specifically in a natural resources field, she still had the opportunity to explore the ecology of different ecosystem structures and species out West. Moreover, she was able to learn more about how both natural and prescribed fire can impact an ecosystem and inform management decisions.

When asked why she wanted to join FireDawgs, Emily said, “I wanted to learn more about prescribed fire because I felt like I wasn’t learning enough about it in my classes. I thought FireDawgs would be the perfect opportunity to gain experience with fire and gain a better understanding of how it can be used for wildlife management. Spoiler alert: FireDawgs fulfilled both of those expectations!”

MSU FireDawgs has been up to a lot recently!

From the CFR Welcome Back BBQ to our first meeting with Evan Moore and a red card workshop to attending the Wolf River ribbon cutting ceremony with CFR… We’ve had so much fun getting to meet everyone at these events!

Keep an eye out for our next meeting and club burn… FireDawgs is just getting warmed up😌🔥