The Maps & Weather page of the SFE website has been updated to improve ease of access and include additional resources.
Continue ReadingNWCG Mental Health Subcommittee Summer 2021 Newsletter
Maintaining resilience can be challenging in the best of times, and the current circumstances can make it even more difficult. While these tips and strategies are offered as a way to improve well-being and resilience, if you find that they are not enough, seek social support, mentoring, or counseling.
Continue ReadingNational Preparedness Level Raised to PL5
The National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group, or NMAC, has elevated the National #PreparednessLevel to 5 (PL 5), due to significant fire activity occurring in multiple geographical areas, an increase in incident management teams being committed, and heavy commitment of shared resources to large fires nationally.
Given the continuing hot and dry weather and the increase in initial attack and large fires in the western U.S., the decision to move to PL 5 depicts the complexity that fire managers are encountering to assure that adequate firefighting resources are available for protection of life, property and our nation’s natural resources.
This is the earliest we have gone to PL 5 in the past 10 years. In 2002, PL 5 was set on June 21 and in 2008, PL5 was set on July 1.
PL 5 is the highest level of wildland fire activity. Several geographic areas are experiencing large, complex wildland fire incidents, which have the potential to exhaust national wildland #FirefightingResources.
Continue ReadingProPublica Piece Covers Florida Sugarcane Burning
A new in depth piece from ProPublica investigates issues related to air quality as a result of sugarcane burning in Florida.
Continue ReadingWebinar Recap and Recording: Southeast Climate Update + New Climate Normals
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NCPFC/CAFMS Annual Meeting Registration Now Open
Registration for the NCPFC/CAFMS Annual Meeting/Workshop is now available at: https://apfire.wixsite.com/
The annual meeting and presentations will be held August 18, 2021 in Morganton, NC at the Foothills Conference Center. This meeting will be hybrid, with both in-person and virtual options. A field trip will be held on August 19, 2021. The meeting will follow the most up-to-date state, federal and local Covid-19 guidance at the time of the meeting. More details including the agenda can be found on the registration page.
Continue ReadingGetting Our Heads Around the New Fire Environment
A recent article by Joint Fire Science Program Board Chair Dana Skelly discusses how to improve risk assessment and on the ground choices in the face of a wildland fire environment that grows increasingly extreme due to climate change.
Continue ReadingJob: Region Four Heritage Preserve Coordinator, SC Department of Natural Resources
SC DNR is looking to hire someone as a Wildlife Biologist III to manage Heritage Preserves in the coastal counties of SC, the position is very prescribed fire heavy and has a rare and threatened species component as well. The job posting can be found https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sc; search for Wildlife Biologist III. Applications can only be received through that website.
Continue ReadingAmerica’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative Releases 2020 Range-wide Accomplishment Report
America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative released its 2020 Range-wide Accomplishment Report celebrating a decade’s worth of accomplishments and significant progress towards restoring longleaf pine. Despite a turbulent 2020, ALRI’s dedicated partners proved resilient and recorded over 1.9 million acres of accomplishments ranging from new longleaf establishment, prescribed burning, land protection, and maintenance activities
Read the press release and report here.
Continue ReadingJobs: Forest Management/Fire Crew Leader and Members
Multiple AmeriCorps positions are available on a Conservation Corps North Carolina Forest Management Crew. The positions will run from September 1,2021 – August 1,2022, and will include prescribed fire training and experience.
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