Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) and cooperative burns provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for fire management and offers professional fire practitioners a more holistic perspective—while implementing treatments that support community and landscape objectives.
The TREX strategy does what no one else is doing: it provides a 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.
The key focus of TREX is promoting the spread of effective cooperative burning—helping diverse partners leverage skills, resources and staff in ways that maximize opportunities for outreach, treatment and training. TREX works on this at the local level, but also supports nationwide coaching and training to advance prescribed fire capacity and training at a larger scale through the TREX Coaches Network, which coalesced in 2016 around a core of committed TREX organizers and leaders. This network is dramatically expanding the reach of the TREX strategy by mentoring and linking practitioners who are in—and moving into—leadership roles.

See the box at right for links to the TREX toolkit, upcoming TREX events that are accepting applications (see the latest FLN Networker for a full listing).

MORE ABOUT TREX

Many issues of Notes from the Field cover TREX.

Check out the collection of fact sheets about capacity solutions used by TREX coaches.

For more, visit the TREX Publications page.

TREX & TREX COACHES ONLINE

• The Press Democrat (25 Sept 20) — “‘We’re Taking Ownership’: Corps of Civilians Tests New Firefighting Model on Walbridge Fire”
  
• Grist (17 Sept 20) — "Meet the DIY Firestarters Trying to Save California From Itself"
• Hot and Dry (podcast, 10 Sept 20) — "Good Fire"
  
• Living With Fire (podcast, 14 Aug 20) — "The Prescribed Fire Revolution With Jeremy Bailey"
  
• Living With Fire (podcast, 14 Aug 20) — "Achieving Diversity Through Prescribed Burning With Lenya Quinn-Davidson"
  
• High Country News (24 Apr 20) — "The Fire We Need"
  
• Alta (13 Apr 20) — "Taming the Flames"