Events Calendar
The events listed here are open to the public unless noted otherwise, and all are welcome to attend.
Event Details
IGNITE: Prescribed Fire Skills Training
This training is for anyone who wants to learn about the intentional use of fire for healthy landscapes and safer communities. Experienced instructors will teach hands-on skills including: weather monitoring, equipment use, ignition techniques, and basic burn planning. Additional talks will cover fire science, Indigenous cultural burning, and more.
IGNITE: Prescribed Fire Skills Training
This training is for anyone who wants to learn about the intentional use of fire for healthy landscapes and safer communities. Experienced instructors will teach hands-on skills including: weather monitoring, equipment use, ignition techniques, and basic burn planning. Additional talks will cover fire science, Indigenous cultural burning, and more.
IGNITE: Prescribed Fire Skills Training
This training is for anyone who wants to learn about the intentional use of fire for healthy landscapes and safer communities. Experienced instructors will teach hands-on skills including: weather monitoring, equipment use, ignition techniques, and basic burn planning. Additional talks will cover fire science, Indigenous cultural burning, and more.
Property Evaluation Workshop
We will be offering a free property evaluation workshop and field tour at Pacifica: A Garden in the Siskiyous, explaining the factors that go into evaluating a property for a prescribed burn and the considerations for laying out a burn unit.
Property Evaluation Workshop and Social BBQ
Come learn the considerations and factors that go into evaluating a property for a controlled burn and planning a burn unit.
Williams Pile Burning Workshop
This workshop is aimed at people with limited or no experience using fire, and covers building good piles, choosing burn days, safe ignition, monitoring active fires, extinguishing piles, and monitoring completed burn sites. We will have multiple experienced fire professionals and resources on site to ensure safe and informative burns.
We’ll send out an email with locations details closer to the event; sign up on our mailing list at the bottom of this page.
Johnson Burn
NOTE: As we write this, the Smith River Complex is approaching O'Brien. Firefighters surveying potentially threatened structures praised Cheryl for the work she's done to prepare her house and property.
Collins Demonstration Forest Burn
We were fortunate to operate under the leadership of ODF’s Prescribed FireProgram Manager, Amanda Rau.
Teutsch Burn
This burn was our most well attended, with almost 60participants! It was also the RVPBA’s steepest unit so far.
Clover / Parsons Burn
Fall burns can be challenging in the Rogue Valley because the weather goes from very hot and dry to wet in the blink of an eye. Still, we used a dry spell in November to do a 6-acre burn in the Applegate Valley,
