City of Greeley will host workshop for prescriptive burn education
GREELEY, Colo. — The City of Greeley Natural Areas & Trails Division and Greeley Fire Department are partnering with the Ember Alliance to perform a prescribed burn at Signature Bluffs Natural Area this fall. The burn window is September 16 through October 31. The exact date will be determined based on weather conditions and the availability of staff and equipment.
Public safety is the number one priority when planning and conducting prescribed burns. Greeley firefighters and the Ember Alliance will conduct the burn with the oversight of several local and state fire agencies.
Prescribed fire smoke may affect a person's health. For more information, visit the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment website. For more information about the City of Greeley's prescribed burn program, visit greeleygov.com/natural-areas.
Prescribed Burn Information Session
The city invites the public to attend an information session on Wednesday, September 11, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Poudre Learning Center, 8313 W F Street. During this session, the public can learn more about prescribed burns as a wildfire mitigation and natural resource management tool and have their questions addressed.
Officials request residents RSVP to attend. For those unable to attend, a recorded video of the presentation will be available on the city’s YouTube channel after the event.
About the Ember Alliance and NOCO TREX
The Ember Alliance has been working with partners to plan NOCO TREX for fall 2024. Based in Fort Collins, the Ember Alliance is a national organization of wildland fire practitioners, researchers, analysts and instructors dedicated to increasing the pace and scale of prescribed fire. The mission of the Ember Alliance is to restore the relationship between communities and fire on the landscape. This mission ties in perfectly with the TREX model.
Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) and cooperative burns provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for fire management and offers fire practitioners a more holistic perspective—while implementing treatments that support community and landscape objectives. TREX provides a unique cooperative burning model that services the needs of diverse entities, including federal and state agencies, private landowners and contractors, tribes, academics, and international partners—while incorporating local values and issues to build the right kinds of capacity in the right places.
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