January 13th to 17th, 2025
Summary: This workshop will provide an opportunity to improve and refine burn plans. Through content delivery, practical exercise, small group activity; participants will write new or edit existing burn plans building on principles discussed. This will provide continuing education on burn plan preparation to improve collective understanding of prescribed fire plans, regardless of agency. Participants will receive credit for RT-300.
Format: Participants will bring burn plans for review or that they intend to develop. Each day will consist of 2-4 hours of content delivery. Set topics will be discussed during (see draft agenda below), with small group and site-specific topics occurring in response to participants’ interests. Half of each day will be focused time for burn plan development for individual or small group collaboration. Participants can spend these times in writing, group collaboration, or participant-driven conversations on topics of interest. Subject Matter Experts and peer reviewers will be present to facilitate discussions, provide expertise and perform technical reviews. The overall intent of this workshop is to improve focus on recognizing and preparing quality burn plans. This will improve our collective ability to reduce risk to agency administrators and fire managers.
