RX310 - Introduction to Fire Effects

Reviewed: 1995     Hours: 36

Course Description:

This course provides the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize basic fire regimes, the effects of fire treatments on first order fire effects, and to manipulate fire treatments to achieve desired first order fire effects.

 

This course is supplemented by the NWCG Fire Effects Guide, NFES #2394 (1994).

Objectives:

Given basic fire regimes, management objectives, biotic adaptations, resource responses, cultural limitations, surface and subsurface heat as it relates to fuel consumption and fuel moisture, pre/post-burn environmental conditions, and land use activity, the student will be able to:

• Describe fire as an ecological process.
• Describe applications and limitations of fire use.
• Describe first order fire effects and how to measure them.
• Describe the interaction of fire characteristics on natural and cultural resource components that determine first order fire effects.
• Discuss how to manipulate fire treatments to achieve desired first order fire effects.

Given a specific treatment, the student will be able to:

• Describe reasons for the variation in post-fire effects.
• Compare the effects of prescribed fire with other treatment methods.
• Describe first order fire effects and how to measure them.

Target Group:

Prescribed fire crew member slated for burn boss, monitor, or other prescribed fire positions.

Interdisciplinary Team resource advisors.

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

All instructors should have had recent prescribed fire experience as it relates to analyzing prescribed fire effects.

Also see NWCG Instructor Qualifications at the beginning of the Field Managers Course Guide.

Prerequisites:

Working knowledge of fire behavior.

Understanding of basic ecological principles.

Successfully complete all pre-course work.

Offer Level:
Regional, state, or area

This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 9-18-2008.

Related Downloads:
There are no downloads for this course.