PRESCRIBED FIRE TRAINING AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS!!!

The APFC is hosting a prescribed burn workshop for private landowners from 9am-3pm, Saturday, February 11 at the U of A  Livestock and Poultry Experiment Station in Batesville, Arkansas. If you are interested in how or when to use prescribed fire to help accomplish your land management goals, you should check this out!  REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Click on the title link above to view the registraion form and instructions.  SPACES ARE LIMITED, SO DON'T DELAY! Member agencies will be providing instructional presentations on the History of Fire in Arkansas, Fire Effects on Wildlfie/Forestry, How to Write a Burn Plan, Ignition Techniques, and Legal Reguirements, AMONG OTHERS! If weather allows it, a Prescribed Fire Demonstration will be conducted! Lunch and snacks will be provided, and participants will also receive a packet of reference material to take home with them.  Come join us, its the Hottest Ticket in Town!

REGISTER TO BECOME A MEMBER: It's FREE!  It's EASY!   It's COOL!

The Arkansas Prescribed Fire Network is a cooperative project of the Arkansas Prescribed Fire Council.  The purpose of the Network is to provide accurate information on the use and benefits of prescribed fire in Arkansas, provide a place where people can come to find information, post photos, learn about training and equipment locations, and find help getting their own prescribed fires accomplished safely and effectively.

History of the Arkansas Prescribed Fire Council

The Arkansas Prescribed Fire Council (APFC) was started in 1997 as the Arkansas Prescribed Fire Committee by natural resource managers across the state to promote the benefits of prescribed fire to agency personnel and citizens.  The first product of this committee was the Prescribed Fire as a Management Tool Workshop which is held once a year to educate state and federal agency personnel on the use and benefits of prescribed fire on the landscape. Over a decade later, participants now include non-government personnel and a few private landowners for a week’s worth of education and on-the-ground training and experience using prescribed fire in Arkansas.

The Arkansas Prescribed Fire Council is trying help both landowners find prescribed fire vendors, and also help prescribed fire vendors find landowners more efficiently.  If you are a landowner in need of some burning assistance, please go to the Arkansas Prescribed Fire Services Database, then register as a user.  Once registered, log in and add your contact information and your property's burn unit information.  You may have multiple burn units on multiple property's, but that's ok, you will not need to resubmit any contact info.

If you are a forester/vendor who is interested in conducting prescribed burns for landowners in Arkansas, Contact Us, and the Arkansas Prescribed Fire Council will work with you to help build our vendor service profiles.

• News/Articles:
• Times Record Online: article on burning, APFC, and agency strategies
• Carbon footprint effects of prescribed fire article
• Check out this prescribed fire video released from Farm Bureau!
• AY magazine published an article by TNC's Jay Harrod on why we burn in Arkansas
• Tall Timbers Research article on fire effects on many bird species (including turkeys and quail!) in southern forests
• Information about the Arkansas Field Office of The Nature Conservancy's prescribed burn season can be found on the ARFO Burn Crew Blog site.
• The Nature Conservancy-Arkansas Field Office's fire restoration page contains info on how fire is being used for ecological restoration across the state.
• Other Publications that can provide useful information on fire management from Arkansas and other areas of the country:
• A Guide to Prescribed Fire in Southern Forests (UGA Index version)
• Arkansas Forestry Commission Prescribed Burning Guidelines
• Fire Effects in Oklahoma
• Fire Prescriptions for Maintenance and Restoration of Native Plant Communities
• Prescribed Burning Manual - Indiana
• Benefits of Burning on Private Land - Minnesota
• Use of Prescribed Fire - Missouri
• Prescribed Burning In Arkansas Forest
• Prescribed Fire Associations
• Find out where state and federal partners have prescribed burns planned, the wildfire danger rating for any county in the state, or where county burn bans have been placed by visting the AFC fire info site.

DON'T MISS THE LANDOWNER TRAINING OPPORTUNITY LISTED ON THE HOME PAGE!!!