Mt. Adams Prescribed Burn Association

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Mt. Adams Prescribed Burn Association

The Mt. Adams PBA is a coalition of community members and private land managers helping one another safely use fire to steward our local landscapes.

05/05/2026

We had a fantastic group of PBA members and volunteers at our burn last Saturday! We made quick work of a two-acre unit on the eastern edge of Trout Lake, right along the White Salmon River. We were also just down the road from two other burns completed this spring and last fall by the ,l. Together, we are starting to create a buffer of good fire around these neighbors and the greater community!

The PBA is likely finished with burning for this spring, but we’re looking forward to our quarterly meeting on June 10th! More info on our website.

04/26/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out to our first PBA burn of the spring season last Saturday!

We had beautiful weather for this 7-acre burn west of Goldendale, with fantastic burn leadership by PBA Steering Committee member Adam Lieberg.

Keep an eye on out for an email announcement about our next burn, hopefully next Saturday!

12/21/2025

The Mt. Adams PBA rounded out 2025 with several rewarding pile burning days. We burned about two dozen hand piles over two days on a private property near Goldendale, then scaled up to machine pile burning on a property in the Snowden area. We learned about ideal pile construction and the need for sufficiently dry fuels for efficient burning. Over the course of the burns, we tried out several different methods and tools for lighting piles, including drip torches, a propane-fueled torch, leaf blowers, and fuel-soaked wood shavings.

Once piles were burning, we “chunked” unburned material into the hotter center of our hand piles to increase consumption and took advantage of the embers to heat soup and roast hot dogs for lunch. We’re grateful for everyone who showed up (including our awesome partners at ) to lend a hand and share their pile burning knowledge. It was wonderful to help two very deserving landowners reduce fuels and improve defensible space around their properties.

We wish everyone a restful end of the year and we’ll see you in 2026!

10/21/2025

We traded dense conifer forests for pine-oak savannah for our second and third PBA burns of the season on Saturday. While the weather is getting wetter and cooler, we still managed to find near-perfect burn conditions in the drier, oak-dominant ecosystems near Lyle, WA. Thanks to our amazing landowners and many helping hands, we managed to squeeze in two burns on neighboring properties, embodying the ethos of community wildfire risk reduction in the wildland urban interface. Reintroducing prescribed fire here was especially meaningful after the Burdoin Fire swept through this area just this summer, underscoring the continued need for fuels reduction.

Thanks to our many PBA members and participants who came from up and down the Gorge, and a special shoutout to our landowners for the delicious lunch and post-burn snacks, as well as the members of the Lyle Volunteer Fire Department who pitched in their own resources to help ensure a safe burn. As we transition to winter, we’ll be shifting our focus to pile burning, trainings, and a fun PBA social. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on future events!

09/12/2025

For our fall quarterly meeting, we convened at the home of two PBA members whose property near Lyle was impacted by the Burdoin Fire. We had a great community showing for a tour & thoughtful discussion about the fire’s impacts on this oak-conifer forest. Observing the results of the burn, landowners Eve and Adam hope to continue stewarding their land with future entries of fire — just under more controlled circumstances.

The Burdoin Fire had destructive and tragic impacts on homes and livelihoods in the area. While acknowledging these effects, we appreciated the opportunity to learn more about our landscape’s relationship with fire and how we can live with it in a more resilient way. Thanks to all who joined us!

06/12/2025

We were treated with a lovely summer evening for our quarterly PBA meeting. Thanks to for hosting us and helping us compare your recent spring and fall burn units! We chatted about observed differences (vegetation response, amount of bare mineral soil, scorch and tree mortality, etc.) and how monitoring can help us predict and manage fire effects on future burns under various conditions. Keep up the great work, Ekone! 🌱☀️

05/20/2025

Another Learn & Burn in the books!! On Saturday, we had over 30 folks join us to talk fire ecology, burn planning, operations, weather, fire effects, and more…and then try it all out on a 2-acre burn unit on Community Forest land. 🔥🔥

Thanks to our friends at and for instruction support, and to all the participants who brought great energy and questions!

05/07/2025

Another successful spring burn in the books! Last week, and brought good fire back into a dry forest near Glenwood, WA. We saw some lovely thermal thinning and reduction of ladder fuels in this stand, moving the needle back towards a ponderosa pine savannah. Not bad for a first-entry burn!

04/15/2025

Geopyxis carbonaria, also known as Charcoal-Loving Elf Cup, is one of several fire-loving mushroom species. Or if you want to sound really smart, you can refer to these mushrooms as pyrophilous fungi. These fungi play an important ecological role in post-fire forest recovery by rebuilding soil structure and biodiversity, reducing soil erosion, and enhancing moisture retention.

We have enjoyed watching Geopyxis popping up in 2024 wildfire and prescribed fires sites in the Columbia Gorge region.

Picture 1: Microwave Tower Fire (July 2024)
Picture 2: Bowman Creek Prescribed Burn (September 2024)

04/01/2025

Yesterday, PBA volunteers from near and far joined us in Lyle to prep a landowner’s unit for a spring burn! 🔥 🌿

Make sure you’re on our email list so you can join us when we bring good fire back to this beautiful oak/pine woodland.

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Lyle, WA
98635

Website

https://www.mtadamspba.org/

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