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
Two student-focused collaborative groups have been formed by members of the Education Committee and collaborators as part of the Student Fireline Project: the Student Rx Fire Collaborative Group and the Student Red Card System Collaborative Group.
The AFE Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Kori Blankenship and Jennifer Fawcett as new board members!
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.
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Upcoming EVENTs
The North American Forest Ecology Workshop will take place June 23-26, 2026 in Missoula, Montana.
Join the Association for Fire Ecology, UC ANR Fire Network, California Fire Science Consortium, Northern California Prescribed Fire Council, Tall Timbers Research Station, and University of Nevada Extension/Living With Fire in San Diego December 7-11, 2026 for the Beneficial Fire Summit!
SAFE Chapter News
Learn about what several SAFE chapters have been up to in this recap of the Spring 2026 all-chapters meeting.
This year, the University of Montana Fire Club welcomed a diverse lineup of guest speakers whose experiences span from science communication, research, to operational sciences within the wildfire realm.
Nominations for National SAFE Officer positions are now open and will close Friday, April 17th
LATEST JOB POSTINGS
The Forest Stewards Guild is hiring an organized and adaptive professional to serve as the Forest and Fire Science Manager for our Southwest Region. This position plays a key role in translating fire and forest science, and monitoring data into practical strategies and communications that inform adaptive land management, support collaborative planning, and engage forest dependent communities.
The Ecological Forester/Certification Coordinator provides technical leadership and hands-on management for forest restoration programs in Georgia and across North America. In Georgia, this position focuses on restoring fire-dependent ecosystems — primarily longleaf pine and the mixed pine/pyric hardwood systems of the coastal plain, piedmont, and southern Appalachians— using forestry tools to achieve ecological rather than commercial goals on TNC owned lands and working with partners including federal and state agencies, land trusts, and private landowners.
The Prescribed Fire Module Crewmember will be an employee of The Nature Conservancy, based in one of three focal geographies working on a 4 to 10-person prescribed fire module. For approximately 6 months per year (mid-May through November), the Module Crewmember will work closely with the module leader, and partner organizations such as the U.S. Forest Service and other local, state, federal, NGO, university, and Tribal partners, in preparing, conducting, and evaluating/monitoring prescribed fire/fuels management activities in Oregon.
The purpose of this position is to contribute to fire management and ecological stewardship efforts via streamlining and organization of data processing and analyses routines related to fuels treatment monitoring in several of Alaska’s National Parks.
afe podcast: Fire Ecology Chats
William Flatley and Theo Witsell discuss using fire-scarred shortleaf pines and tree cores to characterize and link together fire history and history of invasion in the Ozark Plateau.
Claire Tortorelli and Alison Dean discuss how invasive grasses change the spread of fire across the landscape and how to manage it.
Kristen Shive, Linnea Hardlund, and Brianna Baker discuss how managers can move forward in handling the loss that giant sequoias have suffered.

An article recently published in Fire Ecology examines underrepresented hazards in wildland firefighting.