Reviewed: NAFRI
Hours: 40
Course Description:
Through lectures, case studies, and interaction between students and faculty, the course:
- Explores the role of fire and fire management in ecosystem management.
- Examines social, political, legal, economic, and environmental factors critical to fire and fuels treatment for ecosystem management.
- Presents real-world examples of fire management applications in ecosystem management.
- Provides the students with the opportunity to obtain tools, ideas, concepts, techniques and methodologies to address fire and ecosystem management issues at their home unit.
Case studies from North America are presented to expose students to a variety of ongoing programs attempting to integrate the historical, ecological and socioeconomic aspects of fire management into ecosystem management.
The course does not provide a "cookbook" for ecosystem management; rather this course provides concepts, and ecological – social considerations to assist the student with developing specific fire management programs. Local fire effects information and monitoring details are provided in other courses.
Objectives:
- Describe the significance and role of fire in ecosystem management.
- Describe the complexity of integrating fire and fuels treatments into ecosystem management by considering social, political, legal, economic, and environmental factors.
- Identify concepts, techniques, reference resources, and examples for ecosystem management throughout a range of ecosystems.
- Use information presented in this course to communicate and develop understanding and support of fire and ecosystem management programs at the intra- and interagency levels and to collaborate with the public in changing political/social arenas.
Target Group:
- Agency administrators, particularly without fire management background. Senior Executives, Congressional Staff and Tribal leaders.
- Fire staff, such as prescribed fire specialists, burn bosses, fuel managers, assistant FMO's, wildland fire use managers, with limited natural/cultural resource and/or ecology education/backgrounds.
- Individuals directly involved with planning, implementation, and monitoring of fire and ecosystem management programs, i.e., natural/cultural resource management specialists, endangered species biologists, compliance specialists (NEPA, SHPO), and land and fire management planners, who do not have comprehensive fire management or fire ecology backgrounds.
- Individuals at entry level directly involved with fire management or individuals new to the wildland fire management program who do not have a comprehensive fire management background.
Minimum Instructor Qualifications:
This course is managed by a National Steering Committee.
Prerequisites:
None
Offer Level:
National
This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 6-30-2008.
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