Promoting Fire Ecology Research, Education, and Management
The Association for Fire Ecology is an international organization dedicated to improving the knowledge and use of fire in land management. We are scientists, educators, students, managers, practitioners, policymakers, and interested citizens helping to shape the emerging profession and growing field of fire ecology.
AFE news
Contribute to an international study on wildfire resilience, which is gathering place-based insights into the opportunities and challenges of building resilience across fire-prone regions worldwide.
A Beautifully Burned Forest: Learning to Celebrate Severe Forest Fire by Dr. Richard Hutto explores the beauty and ecological importance of severe fire.
A recent issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B delves into novel fire regimes under human influence and climate change.
A recording of The Past, Present, and Future of Workforce Development and Education panel from the 4th Southwest Fire Ecology Conference has been uploaded.
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Upcoming EVENTs
The North American Forest Ecology Workshop will take place June 23-26, 2026 in Missoula, Montana.
SAFE Chapter News
The Eastern Fire Network (EFNet) is a collaborative research and training network to advance understanding of wildfire dynamics and risk in eastern U.S. landscapes, helping to inform fire management and decision-making. As part of a structured program in transdisciplinary science, students will work in interdisciplinary teams and practitioners to co-design solutions to local wildland fire science challenges, linking research to implementation.
The LSFSC requests proposals to fund student internships that address relevant fire science and management issues associated with northern fire-dependent ecosystems of the Lake States region
LATEST JOB POSTINGS
The Community Organizing Manager at FireGeneration Collaborative (a program of FUSEE) is funded to help facilitate and carry out the new pilot program called the Changemakers Cohort. The cohort itself will be composed of six (6) young (18-30), BIPOC participants who are invested in advocating for a cultural and socioecological change in fire management.
The Nature Conservancy Prescribed Fire Practitioner works on the North Idaho Fire Module in a team environment while participating with prescribed fire assignments, wildland fire operations (short term Administratively Determined hire through USFS), and other land stewardship activities as assigned.
Tall Timbers is recruiting a Research Technician III to coordinate field research for the Fire
Research lab at sites across the southern United States. The research will investigate the patterns and mechanisms of post-fire tree mortality and fire-vegetation feedbacks in forests, savanna, and grasslands.
The Fire Research Biologist is a key position for all fire research at Tall Timbers. The Biologist will assist the investigation of the patterns and mechanisms of post-fire tree mortality and fire-vegetation feedbacks in forests, savanna, and grasslands.
afe podcast: Fire Ecology Chats
Kristen Shive and Scott Stephens discuss litigation challenges threatening the resilience of Yosemite's giant sequoia trees.
William Nikolakis discusses pursuing transformative policies relating to indigenous fire stewardship.
Andrea Nocentini discusses optimizing prescribed fire management in subtropical wetlands using a numerical model.

An article recently published in Fire Ecology examines unearthing harmful narratives and confronting the ideologies within wildfire protection plans.