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Membership is FREE!

Membership is available to all people, even agency folks as we are NOT considered a 501c3 non-profit but rather a “collaboration”. There is no application process, just the registration form to collect your information. 

Members are expected to:

  • Attend quarterly Steering Committee Meetings as possible

  • Be involved with subcommittees/event planning/leadership roles as possible

  • Like/Share MI PFC and other members' fire-related social media

  • Share event/training details if open to public or MI PFC members

  • If contact info changes or you no longer wish to be a member, contact info@firecouncil.org

  • Entry-level fire people welcome! If you can share/promote information, then we want you! This is a great community to learn more about prescribed fire and get more involved no matter your experience level!

Membership perks include:

  • Networking Opportunities

  • Right to Vote on MI PFC decisions (can pass on voting for any reason)

  • Early event/training registration when offered by MI PFC

  • Your name/org listed on the MI PFC website and fire consultants and/or volunteer crew page (if applicable)

  • Your fire-related social media posts tagged with @miprescribedfirecouncil will be reposted as a Facebook/Instagram story to our followers

  • Your events posted to the MI PFC events page on the website and promoted in quarterly newsletter emails when you send details to info@firecouncil.org

SUBMIT EVENT OR TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

"An interagency firefighting team aided by a fire drone conducted a highly successful prescribed burn in central Wisconsin on Department of Defense land, April 11. ...Traditionally, there are two main methods for prescribed burns, hand ignition
The FIRST NE-MW Regional Prescribed Fire Science and Management Workshop will be held in Madison, Wisconsin at The Madison Concourse hotel on August 29 – 31, 2023. Sponsored by the Northeast Regional Strategy Committee (NE RSC), a regional org
"The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), established in April 2002 by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to provide an intergovernmental committee to support the implementation and coordination of Federal Fire Management Policy
"Tribal officials from three Chippewa Bands signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Forest Service this week to provide for co-stewardship and protection of “treaty-reserved rights under the 1854 Treaty” across the m
Large burn sites in forested areas are ideal for morel mushroom hunting, especially in burned areas where jack, white or red pine once grew. Grassy and other non forest areas are not as likely to produce morels. The MI DNR have put together a map of