Course Target Group:
This course is targeted to resource managers, wildland fire planning personnel and line officers who want to enhance their knowledge and understanding of fire management and fire ecology.
- Natural and cultural resource management specialists, endangered species biologists, compliance specialists (NEPA, SHPO), land, fire and fuels management planners. Individuals involved with planning, implementation, and monitoring of fire and ecosystem management programs.
- Public affairs, information officers, education and other specialists or individuals who need to communicate to diverse audiences fire management and ecological principles and practices.
- Agency administrators, (i.e., line officers) senior managers, Staff Officers, Tribal leaders, and other key partners. (i.e., community leaders, local government, state officials, non-government partners, et cetera.)
- Fire Management Officers and Assistant Fire Management Officers.
Course Description:
Through lectures, case studies, a field trip, and interaction between students and faculty, the course will:
- Explore the role of fire and fire management in ecosystem management.
- Examine historical, social, political, legal, economic, and environment factors critical to fire management.
- Provide the students with concepts, technologies and methods to actively engage in ecosystem management across the landscape.
Course Size is limited to 100 Students
Course Objectives:
- Convey the significant role of fire management across a diversity of ecosystems.
- Demonstrate the complexity and benefits of integrating fire and landscape management with social, political, legal, economic and environmental factors.
- Provide students with strategies, concepts, reference resources, and models to facilitate ecosystem management decisions.
- Reinforce fundamental ecological concepts as they relate to fire on the landscape.
Total Hours: 40
Course Prerequisites:
None
NWCG