SAFE aims to provide students with diverse backgrounds with an open forum on fire ecology through which research can be shared, networks formed, and funding and information resources can be accessed. Offers scholarships, mentoring opportunities, events, and awards. Visit the SAFE website here!
The mission of Tall Timbers is to foster exemplary land stewardship through research, conservation and education. It is also recognized as one of the nation’s leading land trusts. Visit the website here!
The overarching goal of the Coalition is to establish and maintain a viable coalition of prescribed fire councils by providing encouragement, education, and leadership for the use of prescribed fire across the United States. Visit the website here!
Features stories and information from a diversity of perspectives including successes, lessons learned, resources, and even failures related to community wildfire resilience. Weekly blogs. Visit the website here!
The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) is a map released every Thursday, showing where drought is and how bad it is across the U.S. and its territories. Visit the website here!
US Fire Administration’s main website. Visit the website here!
US Fire Administration’s site direction on fire adapted communities Visit the website here!
This project explored how federal policies interact with social conditions at the community level to reduce wildfire impacts. The goals of this project were to: (1) explain interactions among socioeconomic vulnerability, community adaptive capacity, and wildfire planning and mitigation; and (2) identify how these dimensions influence resilience in rural, fire-prone communities. Notes: Fact sheets were particularly insightful. Visit the website here!
Apply here for government jobs! Tips: Search with keywords range technician, forestry technician, 0462, smokejumper, hotshot, or fire management Visit USAjobs website here!
Research in the Forest Service is conducted at nearly 80 locations across the United States. Much of the research is organized around five Research Stations, one in each region of the United States. Visit the website here!