Oregon Prescribed Fire Council

06/09/2023

Great work being accomplished by the Rogue Valley Prescribed Burn Association!

Rogue Valley Prescribed Burn Association professionals plan for the day in which a fire is methodically set while monitoring it to make sure it behaves as expected.

12/10/2021

Check out our survey for land managers and practitioners about prescribed fire to help shape OPFC’s strategic plan, Oregon’s State Certified Burn Manager program, & the prescribed fire liability study underway in Salem! Survey closes January 3rd.

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10/19/2021

Some great coverage on a recent indigenous fire practitioner training sponsored by OPFC!

This past weekend in a forested area outside Eugene, a group of Native American firefighter trainees carried out a prescribed burn. That’s a deliberate and

07/22/2021

The initial assessment suggests that the many years of forest treatments worked, said Pete Caligiuri, Oregon forest program director for The Nature Conservancy, which runs the research at the preserve.

"Generally speaking, what firefighters were reporting on the ground is that when the fire came into those areas that had been thinned ... it had significantly less impact."

Firefighters said, because of years of forest management, flames stayed closer to the ground, where they were easier to fight, moved more slowly and did less damage to the overall forest.

06/29/2021

HB 762 and HB 2571 have both passed! 🎉

HB 762 is the Omnibus fire bill, which included initiating rulemaking on a Certified Burn Manager program and cross-boundary burns. It also contains many other things related to wildfire response and mitigation.

HB 2571 calls for a study of prescribed fire liability, insurance, and standard of care, tasking it to the Department of Consumer and Business Services, in consultation with OPFC among others. This report will be delivered to the Legislature to inform future direction around these issues.

05/28/2021

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and that makes people nervous especially here in dry Central Oregon where wildfires pose a threat to life and property.

05/06/2021

“The kind of conditions we had this morning,” says Ken Gregor, Mazama Zone Fire Management Officer, “increased fire behavior to a point where we needed to go into more of an operational suppression mode to try and curtail it quickly. To do that, we had to declare it a wildfire which allows us to bring in larger aircraft and other resources to help, like hand crews, dozers, and engines.” The fire is still inside of the planned prescription area, Gregor says, but it was important to be proactive quickly to keep it inside the parameters.

CHILOQUIN, Ore. – Drier conditions, lower humidity, and increased fire behavior forced the Chiloquin Ranger District of the Fremont-Winema National Forest, to convert the North 2 prescribed fire, which began yesterday, into a wildfire called the Meadow Fire.

04/22/2021

Great video from the City of Eugene about controlled ecological burning

Ecological burning, also known as prescribed fire, plays a huge role in restoring and preserving habitat and maintaining public safety. Contents: 00:00 The Willamette…

03/22/2021

SAVE THE DATES! The Oregon Prescribed Fire Council's Virtual Annual Meeting is just around the corner on April 20, 27, May 24, and June 1. https://www.oregonrxfire.org/annual-meeting.html

02/25/2021

OPFC in the news! Great article by Dale Kasler in the Sacramento Bee.

Pollution regulations, bureaucracy and fear are stopping widespread use of ‘prescribed burns.’ Here’s why that matters.

02/10/2021

Check out HB2571 and tomorrow’s public hearing on a bill that directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services, in consultation with State Forestry Department, Oregon State University and Oregon Prescribed Fire Council, to study liability for prescribed fires.