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Job Opening - Citizen Fire Academy Coordinator

The OSU Extension Service is recruiting for an Education Program Assistant 2 to coordinate the Citizen Fire Academy program and assist with other Extension Forestry and Natural Resources programs.  View the posting here.  The posting number is 0013888. 

5th Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference

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The 5th Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference will be held 27-29 May 2015 at the Bryant Conference Center on the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The goal of the Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference is to improve land stewardship through transfer of knowledge and technology of fire as a management tool and its role in a historical context.

Colorado Wildland Fire Conference 2015

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This year's conference is designed to provide the framework for becoming a Fire Adapted Community.  Anyone wishing to learn more about how they can reduce their community's vulnerability to wildfire is welcome to attend. 

A new age of wildland fuel science

Wildland fuels may be the most important consideration in fire management, not just because they are important inputs for predicting fire behavior (i.e., how fast and intense a fire gets), but also because fuels are the only factor that can effectively be controlled by direct and indirect management manipulation.