Join the WA Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR), Okanogan Conservation District, and the WA State Conservation Commission's Center for Technical Development (CTD) for a comprehensive post-fire assessment and recovery training this spring.
Participants will learn from experts across Washington during interactive webinars and gain hands-on experience working in recent burn areas during the field training; learning proven methods, tools, and sound management practices alongside experienced…
May 13, 2026 Debris Management and Danger Trees
Join the WA Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR), Okanogan Conservation District, and the WA State Conservation Commission's Center for Technical Development (CTD) for a comprehensive post-fire assessment and recovery training this spring.
Participants will learn from experts across Washington during interactive webinars and gain hands-on experience working in recent burn areas during the field training; learning proven methods, tools, and sound management practices alongside experienced…
There is a growing demand for high quality, spatially explicit, cross boundary treatment data including information on the type, location, age, and ownership of fuel and vegetation treatments. This information is essential for reporting accomplishments and understanding fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing wildfire risk to values. Several platforms now offer cleaned and collated treatment data from disparate source databases. Researchers and practitioners need to understand the nuances…
The Fueling Adaptation: Leveraging Community Capacity to Reduce Wildfire Risk team is wrapping up their research examining how communities in areas of high wildfire risk in Southwest Idaho are adapting to mitigate that risk, and how federal investments made by the U.S. Forest Service leverage existing capacities, networks, and adaptations in fire-prone landscapes.
This webinar will share share results for Southwest Idaho from:
Wildfire governance survey: Survey…
May 20, 2026 Creating a Diverse Recovery Funding Portfolio
Join the WA Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR), Okanogan Conservation District, and the WA State Conservation Commission's Center for Technical Development (CTD) for a comprehensive post-fire assessment and recovery training this spring.
Participants will learn from experts across Washington during interactive webinars and gain hands-on experience working in recent burn areas during the field training; learning proven methods, tools, and sound management practices alongside experienced…
May 11 - 22, 2026 Columbia Gorge TREX 2026
During CGTREX, participants will learn, practice, and share knowledge, skills, and experience in a hands-on training environment. Topics covered include fire management, ecology, outreach, monitoring, and operational dimensions of planning and implementing prescribed fire. Participants will serve in qualified and trainee positions on a burn team that will support burns on private, state, tribal, and/or federal lands. Participants should expect to have trainee opportunities, and be asked to be…
In 2025, the USDA Forest Service updated the EcoMap data products as part of a larger effort to map ecological units and encourage their use in ecosystem-based approaches to natural resource and land management. This presentation will provide an overview of the ecological mapping system employed by the Forest Service, information on the updated layers, and how these ecological units can be used at different scales for analysis.
May 27, 2026 Pre-Fire Recovery Planning
Join the WA Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR), Okanogan Conservation District, and the WA State Conservation Commission's Center for Technical Development (CTD) for a comprehensive post-fire assessment and recovery training this spring.
Participants will learn from experts across Washington during interactive webinars and gain hands-on experience working in recent burn areas during the field training; learning proven methods, tools, and sound management practices alongside experienced…
Jun 2 - 4, 2026 WA DNR Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Course
Offered as part of Washington State Department of Natural Resources' "certified burner" program that educates professionals and private citizens in the skills and knowledge needed to implement prescribed fire on their landscapes. This three day course is one of the steps to completing the certified burner program, along with required pre- and post-course work. Advance enrollment is required and space is limited, participants must have experience leading either pile or broadcast burns.
Jun 16 - 17, 2026 Idaho Falls Invasive Annual Grasses Field Workshop
Join IMAGINE (Institute for Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems), a collaborative out of the University of Wyoming, for this field-based workshop.
This two-day workshop is designed to take an in depth look at how you can apply a set of principles and tools to strategically manage invasive annual grasses (IAGs) in Eastern Idaho. Our target audience includes both land managers and producers. Whether you are from the area or from the greater western US, this workshop is…
Part of the LANDFIRE Office Hours
Speakers: Rua Mordecai, Coordinator, Southeast Conservation Blueprint, U.S. Fish Wildlife Service; & Cara Joos, Natural Resource GIS Programmer/Analyst, U.S. Forest Service Contractor, Pacific Planning Services Group
Jun 23 - 26, 2026 2026 North American Forest Ecology Workshop
"Our theme is Growing resilient forests and communities.
This conference will host plenary talks, scientific presentations, and field trips exploring the science and management of how to create and maintain resilient forest ecosystems and the human communities embedded in them. Focusing on innovative science, partnerships, and creative management, the conference will host topics on ways to foster forest communities that are resilient to climate stress, disturbance, and societal change. All…
Jul 7 - 10, 2026 International Conference on Reforestation Under Drought
"Drought affects forests from the boreal to the tropics and is increasingly becoming a major concern for successfully establishing new trees through reforestation and afforestation as water limitations are the new normal. Ensuring success of new regeneration is critical for meeting forestry objectives, yet many of the areas committed to management are or have experienced recent droughts hindering regeneration and threatening forest sustainability.
The inaugural International Union of Forest…
Oct 6 - 9, 2026 Society of American Foresters National Convention
The 2026 SAF National Convention celebrates 125 years of forestry and natural resource stewardship while looking ahead to what’s next. This theme honors traditional practices and the generations of foresters who built the profession and recognizes the need to grow, adapt, and collaborate in a rapidly changing world.
Today’s forestry professionals are navigating changing landscapes, new technologies, evolving standards and expectations, and emerging opportunities, from artificial intelligence to…
Sep 28 - Oct 9, 2026 2026 Selkirk TREX
After taking a year off Selkirk TREX is back. Join us in Northeast Washington to develop your prescribed fire skills, knowledge, and qualifications. The Selkirk Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) is a peer-to peer experiential learning based training with field trips, guest speakers, hands-on and live fire training. Learn about fire ecology, fire behavior, prescribed fire operations, burn planning, fire effects monitoring, and more.
Participants will be required to have…
Oct 15 - 16, 2026 2026 Rocky Mountain Wildfire Smoke Symposium
Save the date for this annual gathering that brings together researchers, public health professionals, community leaders, wildland firefighters, and government partners to explore the health impacts of wildfires and develop effective strategies for mitigating smoke exposure. Through a combination of expert-led sessions and collaborative discussions, the symposium aims to enhance wildfire resilience and foster community, state, and regional partnerships essential for adapting to a future with…
Oct 19 - 23, 2026 Wildland Fire Canada Conference + Canadian Smoke Forum
The Wildland Fire Canada Conference (WFCC) and Canadian Smoke Forum brings together wildland fire management agencies, Indigenous knowledge holders and experts, scientists, partners, and collaborators from across Canada and around the world. This biennial conference focuses on wildland fire management, science, and knowledge-sharing in Canada.
Presentation proposals are open until March 30th, with an option to accommodate remote presentations.
Dec 7 - 11, 2026 Beneficial Fire Summit
This event aims to bring practitioners, researchers, community members, Tribes, agencies, NGOs, PBAs, and everyone else together to celebrate all of our recent progress, share insights and ideas, and put our heads together about what the next phase of this work might look like, not only in California, but across the West. This won't be a typical conference—we hope to create an engaging, productive space, with workshops, field tours, focused sessions, and lots of time for networking and…