2025 Cooperative Extension Fire Peer-Learning Exchange

By Jennifer Faucett
North Carolina State University

This interactive workshop is designed specifically to provide you with the knowledge, tools, and skills necessary to bring fire-related educational programming to the communities you serve. Through train-the-trainer style presentations, demonstrations, field tours, and discussion panels, attendees will gain the confidence and resources to serve as community leaders in wildfire education. Sessions during the workshop will include a panel discussion about cultural burning and partnership with tribes, a mini pile burning workshop, home hardening 101, post-fire landowner workshops, and a fire ecology hike in the nearby Mariposa grove of giant sequoias! Join us in this peer-learning exchange to learn about wildfire preparedness, mitigation, and recovery. You do not need to work in fire or have experience doing fire-related programming to join this event.

This event will take place at the beautiful UC Merced Yosemite Field Station in Wawona, California and run from 12PM on April 15th through April 17th at 12PM, with an option field tour to the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias on the afternoon of April 17th.

If you are interested in joining us to learn, share, and grow together, please register at this link: https://ucanr.edu/extensionfireworkshop. The cost to register for this workshop is $275 and will cover meals and lodging throughout the event. We understand that this may make the workshop inaccessible for some participants. Please reach out to Alison Deak at aldeak@ucanr.edu if you will require travel support or need some or all of your registration costs covered to attend the workshop.