MPFC Resource Portal

MPFC offers these resources as a means to help the prescribed fire community collect and share information relevant to the work we do.

safety

Weather

Air Quality - Smoke Management

DNRE Real Time Air Quality

EPA National

NWCG Publications - Huge collection of smoke-management-related information from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group.

Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed and Wildland Fire 

State of Michigan Smoke Management Plan

Smoke Management and Air Quality for Land Managers - The NWCG Smoke Committee (SmoC) has developed a self-paced tutorial to advance your understanding of smoke and air quality issues facing land and fire managers.

Fire Behavior

Fire Management and Planning

Fire Effects

Liability

Conservation United is a specialty insurance brokerage that focuses on clients in the environmental sector and has recently developed a nationwide prescribed fire liability policy with an AM Best A rated carrier.

American Risk Management Resources Network, LLC provide Solutions to Complex Insurance Needs! With over 40 insurance markets offering more than 150 different non-standardized environmental insurance policy forms including literally thousands of endorsements ARMR.Networks’ specialized expertise frees up your time to focus on what you do best!

Kurt Timmerman
Phone 608-824-3347 Cell 608-609-0397
Email kurt@armr.net

Liability, incentives, and prescribed fire for ecosystem management - Ecological Society of America

Liability, regulation and endogenous risk: Incidence and severity of escaped prescribed fires in the United States - Washington State University School of Economic Sciences

Liability and Prescribed Fire: Perception and Reality - Professor John R. Weir et al.

friends of mpfc

Visit the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Consortium's site for their information and newsletter sign-up.

The Lake States Fire Science Consortium has a wealth of valuable information.

The Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES) has a resource catalog that allows you to access 25,000 records as well as 33,700 publications on fire. Check it out!

The Fueling Collaboration Panel Discussion Series started in 2020 and has archives of discussions on a range of fire topics!

The Ember Alliance is a nonprofit based in northern Colorado working with partners across the country to create a more fire resilient society through opportunities such as TREX.

Find other regional fire councils and resources throughout the northeast and midwest USA through the NE-MW Regional Prescribed Fire Council Coordinating Group

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