All Courses

  • Prescribed Fire Training Academy: Getting Started

    This course introduces the concept of prescribed fire to students who have never been on a controlled burn. This unit will explain the benefits of burning, a history of wildland fire and its usage over time, and finally where a novice burner can go to learn more about burning.

  • Be Smoke Savvy: Training Guide of Best Management Practices for Prescribed Fire Smoke

    A training guide for private lands prescribed fire practitioners that explores topics related to planning for and mitigating smoke. Topics covered include smoke behavior, legal requirements, tools for smoke management, and more.

  • The Prescribed Fire Training Academy: Planning the Prescribed Burn

    This course details the elements to developing a burn plan, covering topics like the initial complexity analysis, elements required for burn plans, best practices, and more.

  • The Prescribed Fire Training Academy: Conducting the Burn

    This course covers the process of completing final site preparations before a controlled burn as well as a walkthrough of the day-of your burn. Topics covered include elements like firebreaks, mop-up, crew briefings, and more.

  • The Prescribed Fire Training Academy: Evaluating the Burn

    This course on evaluating burn effects introduces new burners to the concepts necessary to conduct initial and secondary evaluations in the burn unit. Students can expect to become familiar with the types of responses they will see, as well as the effects that fire can have on different groups of plants and animals specifically.

  • The Prescribed Fire Training Academy: Introduction to Fire Behavior

    This course covers all of the material presented in the S190 course, including fire terminology, fire behavior fundamentals, and more.

  • GA Wildland Firefighter Training

    Wildland firefighting is a foundational discipline within natural resource and emergency management, covering a broad range of topics including fire behavior, suppression tactics, firefighter safety, and human factors in decision-making. With increasing wildfire activity driven by climate change and land management challenges, understanding fire is more relevant than ever to both communities and ecosystems. This course introduces students to the core principles of wildland firefighting through a blended format of online instruction, interactive modules, and field-based learning. The curriculum follows National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) standards and includes three entry-level courses: S-130 (Firefighter Training), S-190 (Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior), and L-180 (Human Factors in the Wildland Fire Service). Students will explore topics such as fire behavior fundamentals, suppression techniques, leadership under stress, and the ecological role of fire. The course is designed to be accessible to individuals from any background, and no prior fire experience is assumed.

  • The Prescribed Fire Training Academy: Fire Ecology Topics

    This "course" is actually a collection of various fire ecology topics. We encourage you to pick and choose chapters and topics that interest you most and explore them, without feeling the need to complete every unit (though you are welcome to do so!)