Author: Jarred M Brooke

This guide will outline the Training & Experience needed to be a Certified Prescribed Burn Manager (CPBM) view document

Individuals seeking the Indiana Certified Prescribed Burn Manager (CPBM) certification must lead two prescribed burns (one in each of the major fuel groups; grass and timber litter) as an apprentice under the supervision of an CPBM or an NWCG RXB1...

The mimicking of Mother Nature’s regular cycle of fire at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore kicked off Thursday in Gary’s Miller neighborhood. Fire managers from the IDNL planned two fires that began near the Douglas Center for Environmental Education on...

While uncontrolled wildfires have ravaged large areas of the West this year, the National Park Service plans to set a few controlled fires in Northwest Indiana to protect the environment – if the weather cooperates. The Park Service is planning...

Prescribed fire is used to maintain, restore, or improve early successional habitat for wildlife, maintain wetlands, restore and maintain unique barren communities, and restore oak-hickory-dominated ecosystems. read article

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The Joint Fire Science program (JFSP) was created by Congress in 1998 to provide funding and science delivery for studies associated with managing wildland fire, fueland fire-impacted ecosystems. It is a partnership of six federal agencies, the USFS, BIA, BLM,...

Fire practitioners, scientists, outreach and extension specialists, volunteers, educators and enthusiasts from the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Region. visit site

The Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium is an exchange for fire science information. Funded by the Joint Fire Science Program, our goal is to increase the availability and consideration of credible fire science information to those making land management...

The Lake States Fire Science Consortium is a network of fire managers and scientists interested in the fire-dependent forest ecosystems of the Lake States region. visit site