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October 2021
Fire in the Pines Festival
The Fire in the Pines Festival 2021 will be returning to Halyburton Park on Saturday, October 9, from 10am - 3pm, with a rain date of Saturday, October 16! Complete with live music, environmental exhibitors, family entertainment, food trucks, and lots of fun! With weather permitting, the Grand Finale will be a dynamic demonstration Controlled Fire with the NC Forest Service. In order to safely host this family-friendly event in-person while making sure every attendee feels comfortable, the festival is taking…
Find out more »Life from the Ashes: Exploring the Impact of Prescribed & Natural Fire on Insects and Other Invertebrates
Ecosystems throughout North America evolved with wildfire. Today, prescribed fire is an important tool for managing habitat by maintaining open, early-seral landscapes. Fire can greatly improve the value of habitat for insects and other invertebrates, often increasing species abundance and diversity, however, fire (both natural and prescribed) in the wrong place, at the wrong scale, or at the wrong time can have the opposite effect—damaging native plant and invertebrate communities which may take decades to fully recover. Register here.
Find out more »Southern Blue Ridge TREX
The Southern Blue Ridge Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (SBR TREX) began in 2018. The objective of this two-week TREX program is to facilitate peer-to-peer, experiential learning for prescribed fire professionals and others interested in advancing their understanding of innovative tools to restore fire-adapted ecosystems. Participants learn, practice, and share knowledge, skills, and experience in a unique, hands-on training environment focused on the ecological, social, communications, monitoring, and operational dimensions of planning and implementing ecologically-based prescribed fire. https://www.sbrtrex.com/
Find out more »November 2021
Southern Area RT-300 Burn Boss and Agency Administrator Refresher (Rescheduled)
The Southern Area Burn Boss Refresher RT-300 will be held at the Chattanooga, Convention Center in Chattanooga, TN. Event registration can be found here. Additional information for organizations interested in participating can be found here. Another update from 7/15/21 can be found here.
Find out more »9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress – Life with Fire: Prescriptions for Resilience
Join the Southern Fire Exchange, the Fire Science Exchange Network, and others as we participate in this hybrid-virtual conference! From the conference webpage: The Association for Fire Ecology is excited to host this event with Tall Timbers at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, November 30 to December 4, 2021. The Fire Congress will offer an exciting blend of in-person and virtual learning opportunities for fire managers, natural resource professionals, policy and administrative leaders, and the academic and research community. It is…
Find out more »April 2022
Party for the Pine Fire Festival
Weymouth Woods is happy to announce a date has been set for Party for the Pine 2022! With disappointing cancellations due to weather and the pandemic for the past 3 years, everyone is eager to throw the best birthday party possible for our famous longleaf pine on Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 as it turns 474 years old. More information will be posted on the Friends of Weymouth Woods website when available.
Find out more »May 2022
September 2022
Natural Areas Conference
The Natural Areas Conference will be coming to Duluth, Minnesota in 2022. Duluth is located right on the shore of Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes. The northeast area of Minnesota is renowned for its natural areas, offering boreal and hardwood forest, extensive lakes, bogs and wetlands, as well as savanna and upland prairie. More information will be available soon on the event website.
Find out more »October 2022
Fire Ecology Across Boundaries: Connecting Science and Management
The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) and Pau Costa Foundation (PCF) are partnering with Regione Toscana and University of Florence to host the Fire Ecology Across Boundaries conference in Florence, Italy October 4-7, 2022. View the event website here.
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