For over a century, Forest Service Research and Development has built the foundation for what we know about forests and fires across the country. Agency researchers help managers restore resilient and fire-adapted conditions following burns. Learn more at buff.ly/PT6NudG #FireScience

If you are a resident of the Long Island Pine Barrens in Suffolk County New York and are 18 years of age or older you could help shape the future of deadwood management in the Long Island Pine Barrens. Take the short survey at buff.ly/j9FGpQQ (English) or buff.ly/Q7pxqSf (Spanish)

Nominations are still open for RX410 - Smoke Management Techniques, to be held in Florida at Tall Timbers, November 18th - 21st, 2025. Nomination window is open until October 17, 2025. Full details at buff.ly/8smGc3Y #SmokeManagement

Get the latest information on restoring natural red pine woodlands as well as the upcoming webinar series, Promoting Productivity in Eastern Oak Ecosystems, by visiting the following link - buff.ly/Scc1jwL #FireScience

Next Tuesday (October 7, 2025) be sure to catch the Changing Large Wildfire Regime Dynamics in the Eastern US webinar. Full details and registration information at buff.ly/IYKYwPw #Wildfire #FireScience

Make sure to check out our studying fire resource page! We have started a map of colleges and universities with fire programs or fire interest, which can be found on the page. Did we miss your school? Fill out this form so we can get it added! forms.gle/Ppp6ypcToV9s...

For over a century, Forest Service Research and Development has built the foundation for what we know about forests and fires across the country. Agency researchers help fire managers make informed responses while fires are burning. Learn more at buff.ly/mf3ztp7 #FireScience #Wildfire

If you are a wildland firefighter 21 years or older, you may be eligible to participate in a research study that investigates the short-term health effects on heart and lung function after wildfire smoke inhalation. Please read the flyer for more details or use the QRcode.

Wildland fire managers/practitioners can access the latest fire/fuels science & connect with other wildland fire professionals while completing Introduction to Fire Effects (RX-310) in conjunction with the 11th Intl. Fire Ecology and Management Congress in New Orleans, LA. Details at buff.ly/KmYGM1z

Reminder...NAFSE's Fire & Fire History Working Group will be offering its second mini-symposium on Monday, October 6, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT. For speaker info and topics as well as registration information go to buff.ly/lgvKj1T #FireHistory

Applications are now open for new members of the International Association of Wildland Fires' (IAWF) Board of Directors. Applications will be accepted through September 30, 2025, and successful candidates will begin their 3-year term on January 1, 2026. Full details at buff.ly/4aQYvsR #WildlandFire

NAFSE is hosting the Indigenous Landscape Initiative (In Land) for a webinar on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT. The webinar is entitled "Taking Care of Our Home: Northeastern Indigenous Land Stewardship Practices and Caring for the Land Today." Details at buff.ly/9Ujb1GF

NAFSE is excited to announce its Fall 2025 Student Webinar Series. We have three excellent talks lined up for the last three Thursdays in October. Use the following link to get full details and registration information as well. buff.ly/tAZYEed #FireScience

This Thursday, September 25, 2025 take part in the NCSS Partners Seminar: Wildland Fire and Soils. The event will focus on research surrounding wildland fire (which includes both prescribed fire and wildfire) and soil interactions in agricultural, forestry, and range ecosystems. buff.ly/bvIrqwA

Quick reminder that the SFE-CAFMS Joint Webinar: Historical Fire Regimes and Vegetation Patterns of the Blue Ridge and Vicinity will take place this Thursday, September 25, 2025. Get details and registration information at buff.ly/tyhJAMe #FireHistory

NAFSE's Polly Weigand with some great information about Southern Pine Beetle. Video is from the Waterboro Pine Barrens in Maine while we were there providing support at the 2025 Maine TREX.

The next LANDFIRE Office Hour is this Wed, Sept 24. The topic is Using LANDFIRE Data and a Spatial Fire Modelling Platform (IFTDSS) to Inform Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation (speaker is Phillip Graeve, Dep Director, National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center). buff.ly/WeLRTjC

On September 23 at 1 PM Eastern learn more about the AmeriCorps NCCC Forest Corps program and how your unit can apply to host a team. Join the webinar at buff.ly/7fqrGbC

NAFSE's Fire & Fire History Working Group will be offering its second mini-symposium on Monday, October 6, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT. For speaker information and topics as well as registration information go to buff.ly/1Fl31Xu #FireHistory

The 2025 Science Lecture Series at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve continues this Thursday, September 18th with Avian Response to the Restoration and Management of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. Get full details at buff.ly/49DpYmW

Do you have a strong interest in wildland fire science? If so, please consider serving as a peer reviewer of proposals submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP). Get full details at buff.ly/XF4U52m #FireScience

Catch a special bonus LANDFIRE Office Hour this Wednesday, September 17 entitled "Fuel Treatments in Sagebrush and Other Semiarid Uplands: the FIREss Approach to Improving Mapping, Planning, and Effectiveness." The speaker will be Matt Germino. Full details at buff.ly/EcleC3l #LANDFIRE

SFE-CAFMS Joint Webinar: Historical Fire Regimes and Vegetation Patterns of the Blue Ridge and Vicinity will take place on September 25, 2025. Get details and registration information at buff.ly/dWktgIi #FireHistory #Wildfire

The S-131: Firefighter Type 1 (FFT1) / Incident Commander Type 5 (ICT5) course will be offered completely online and virtually instructor-led from November 17 – December 4, 2025. For full details please visit the following link buff.ly/E33Ckzi #Wildfire #TallTimbers

New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! "Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other" By Brian Levine and Scott L. Stephens #SNFECO 🔥 Read it here: ow.ly/y1Tg50WPFxR

In this Fire Networks article, Fire Program staff share reflections from their recent efforts to conduct outreach in communities around Prescribed Burn Associations (PBAs). buff.ly/OmCRidc #FireNetworks #PrescribedFire

Please do not forget the Joint Fire Science Program Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcements (NOFOs) are open! Proposals are due by September 18, 2025, at 5 PM MT. Get full details at buff.ly/Gc6nKxV #FireScience

The 4th International Smoke Symposium will take place March 23-27, 2026 in Tallahassee, FL. The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) has put a call out for presentations, special sessions, and workshops. Get full details at buff.ly/fvbN59q #Smoke #AirQuality #Wildfire #PrescribedFire

Done! ✅ A new experiment now set up on our mountain 🏔️ forest 🌳🌲 site network in 4 Northeastern US states to test how seed rain, microsites, & herbivory interact to affect early stages of climate-induced tree migrations. Led by @nathankiel.bsky.social, a post-doc in our group @sunyesf.bsky.social 🌎🌐🧪

🔥Call for Papers: Wildland-Urban Interface Fires Special Collection in IJWF!🌳🏠🌳 Share research on fire dynamics, risk modelling, resilience & more. If you have any questions, reach out to the team. 📆 Submit by 31 Dec 2025 More Information: www.publish.csiro.au/wf/content/C... #FireScience

Drought conditions continue to worsen over portions of the Northeast. Of note is the expansion of severe drought conditions across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont over the past week. Follow the situation at buff.ly/8fDG9ki #Drought #FireWeather #FireDanger

🌲 Call for Proposals is OPEN for the 2nd Annual California Forest Science Symposium (CFSS)! 📅 Feb 18–20, 2026 | Sacramento, CA Theme: Keeping Science Relevant in Forest Management Submit by Oct 31 🔗 buff.ly/l6Ik7cB @ucanr.edu

NAFSE is hosting the Indigenous Landscape Initiative (In Land) for a webinar on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT. The webinar is entitled "Taking Care of Our Home: Northeastern Indigenous Land Stewardship Practices and Caring for the Land Today." Details at buff.ly/sitLUo0

Another great article from the Fire Networks. Please check it out at buff.ly/UPeAddG #FireEcology

NAFSE's Fire & Fire History Working Group will be offering its second mini-symposium on Monday, October 6, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT. To get speaker information and topics and to register for the event go to buff.ly/t8jdd5b #FireHistory #FireScience

A great story about collaboration and partnerships. Western Australia exchanges its warnings know-how with Manitoba, Canada - ready about it in Wildfire Today. buff.ly/8DRZmbk #Wildfire

Thursday, September 25, 2025...take part in the NCSS Partners Seminar: Wildland Fire and Soils. The event will focus on research surrounding wildland fire (includes both prescribed fire and wildfire) and soil interactions in agricultural, forestry, and range ecosystems. buff.ly/S1MJkUC #FireScience

Fighting Wildfire In A Changing World is the theme for the upcoming Wildland Urban Interface Conference to be held March 24 - 26, 2026 in Reno, Nevada. Get full details at buff.ly/6vOsulN #Wildfire #WUI

The Northeastern Old Growth Conference will take place September 17 - 20, 2025 in Ripton, Vermont. Conference themes include the Future of Old Growth in the Northeast, Healthy Forests/Healthy People, and Old Growth Ecology. Early Bird Registration has been extended to September 5. buff.ly/3W9JpXC

Check out the upcoming webinar, Fire Management Considerations in the Urban Interface, which will take place September 3, 2025. Get full details and registration information at buff.ly/lPR0pBT #Wildfire

The Yale Forest Forum has 2 great speaker series taking place. Frontiers in Forest Carbon Crediting be on Tuesdays from Sept 2 - Dec 2, 2025 & A History of Scientific Forestry: From Extraction to Ecosystem Management will be on Thursdays from Sept 4 - Dec 4, 2025. buff.ly/szmwL7r #FireScience

A double whammy - a smoke front followed by a cold front in NWT. Lots of very active fires in the NWT producing lots of smoke - GOES-West geocolor loop below. Expect significant growth on fires today as winds increase ahead of the fire and then shifts directions so that the flank becomes the head

NWCG is excited to announce that the S-290, Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior (Blended) training is now available on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal. Get full details at buff.ly/sRAiwHY #Wildfire #FireBehavior

Quick reminder the Joint Fire Science Program Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcements (NOFOs) are open! Proposals are due by September 18, 2025, at 5 PM MT. Get full details at buff.ly/iE96SiJ #FireScience

NOVA SCOTIA: “20 homes destroyed in Annapolis County wildfire” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC Nova Scotia #AnnapolisCounty #NovaScotia #NSFire #WestDalhousie #Wildfires

For over a century, Forest Service Research and Development has worked with partners to translate cutting-edge fire science into operational tools that are used in planning and real-time decision making. Learn more at buff.ly/DuYQ4oQ #Wildfire #Safety

NOAA Fire Research: from Conditions to Impacts. In this webinar series, topics include impacts of fire/smoke on urban areas, improving wildfire risk tools, fire weather, understanding/forecasting #wildfires & #smoke, the intersection of fire, drought & floods, and fire preparedness. buff.ly/EIx1Iuc

Canada pledges $46M to wildfire research across nation. Learn more by reading the Wildfire Today article. buff.ly/SiBxXGm #Wildfires #Canada

The best source to monitor wildfires across all of Canada is the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC). Note the activity in eastern Canada, which should raise situational awareness here in the Northeast given the expanding drought across the region. ciffc.net #Wildfire #Drought

Take part in the 8th Annual Chainsaw Safety Workshop, which will be happening September 27 and 28, 2025. Get full details at buff.ly/1vVYGph #ForestStewardsGuild