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Southern Fire Exchange Online Resources
Southern Fire Exchange maintains a list of online resources, archived webinars, and trainings including NWCG and non-NWCG resources on topics including smoke management, general prescribed fire, and fire weather. Many resources listed on this page are also included on SFE’s list.
SFE Lessons Learned from Learn-n-Burn Events
"Learn and Burn" workshops are an excellent way for private landowners and others to gain hands-on burning experience and knowledge from expert mentors. This webinar will provide some lessons learned from coordinating these events, and tips to putting one on in the future. Participants will be provided with a template checklist, examples of past agendas, ideas for potential partners and funding opportunities, suggestions on how to measure program impact, and successes from past events.
Timber Management and Prescribed Fire
Joe Marschall (Oak Woodlands and Forests Fire Science Consortium) moderates a panel of fire professionals and timber management specialists to discuss results from research and personal experience of combining prescribed fire with timber management.
Fire and a Changing Climate - Fueling Collaboration
Webinar from the Fueling Collaboration Series. Jenifer Bunty (Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers & Scientists/Clemson University) moderates a panel of fire professionals and climate change specialists. They discuss how to incorporate climate change predictions/models into forest and fire management and give updates on the latest fire science and climate change research.
NACo County Wildfire Playbook
A County Leadership Guide to Help Communities Become More Fire Adapted and Learn to Live with Wildland Fire.
Fire in Wetlands: Fire Ecology and Prescribed Fire Tactics
The following webinar provides insight on prescribed fire tactics in wetland ecosystems. Developed by the Southern Fire Exchange, the Ocala National Forest and the University of Florida.
Introduction to Prescribed Fire in Southern Ecosystems
This USDA Forest Service publication is a guide for resource managers on planning and executing prescribed burns in Southern forests and grasslands. It includes explanations of reasons for prescribed burning, environmental effects, weather, and techniques as well as general information on prescribed burning.
The LANDFIRE Program
The LF Program provides 20+ national geo-spatial layers (e.g. vegetation, fuel, disturbance, etc.), databases, and ecological models that are available to the public for the US and insular areas.
National Wildfire Coordinating Group
National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s catalogue provides specific training for NWCG positions.
Basic Prescribed Fire Training
Extension Foundation Campus: Basic Prescribed Fire Training is an online course for landowners, land managers, state/federal agency personnel. In this course participants will develop a basic knowledge of the use, application and effects of prescribed fire. For more information or to enroll, contact John Weir, Oklahoma State University, at john.weir@okstate.edu
Introduction to Southeastern Prescribed Fire
Extension Foundation course: the course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental basics of prescribed burning in Southeastern forested ecosystems. At the end of the course the student will have a working knowledge of fire law, fire terminology, fire prescriptions, fire safety, firebreaks, smoke management and a basic understanding of how to conduct a prescribed burn. This course is not intended to take the place of state Certification courses, workshops, or experience in the field. Rather, it is intended to give students a basic understanding of the principles of prescribed fire and fire effects.
Private Land Stewardship Academy: Natural Resource Management Lessons
The role of landowners as stewards of private lands and the public benefits derived from them is paramount. Most often successful land stewardship begins when natural resource professionals convey good land stewardship practices and techniques to private landowners. In this series of online lessons, learn about Natural Resource Management -- how management can help address current and emergent private land challenges -- from the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute.
Purdue Agriculture Help the Hellbender
Everyone can do something to Help the Hellbender. On this website, you will find information about the hellbender, as well as household and farm management practices that can help keep our rivers and streams clean. People who fish and kayak can also learn what they should do if they see a hellbender in the wild.
Human Dimensions Foundations of Natural Resource Conservation
This course will foster a common understanding and application of human dimensions of natural resource conservation.
Communicating Science - Distilling Your Message
Learn to communicate more effectively about science with people outside your field, including the general public, policy makers, the media, donors, and prospective collaborators in other disciplines.
Negotiation Skills for Conservation Professionals: Building a Foundation
This training course provides participants with the basic principles, skills, and techniques used in natural resource negotiation.
Excercise - Using NALCC Conservation Planning Atlas on Data Basin
Excercise - Using NALCC Conservation Planning Atlas on Data Basin used for hands-on training at the CBFO partners meeting on September 10, 2015
QMarxan Data
Data for use with QGIS and Marxan software used during the Marxan training.
QMarxan database
Backup database for QMarxan used in the Marxan training.
