Prescribed burn photo by Andy Vander Yacht
MI PFC leadership have worked diligently to synthesize results from a survey of our own membership and a survey conducted by the Northeast and Midwest Regional PFC Coordinating Group. A document summarizing those results can be viewed at the link below.
To summarize, the top 3 barriers to MI PFC’s mission as perceived by membership were:
1) liability, legislation, and risk management,
2) fire training availability and qualification standards, and
3) limited resources for prescribed fire.
The top 3 referenced goals suggestions for the council were:
1) execute the state certified burn manager programming,
2) do more education and outreach, and
3) increase private landowner and non-agency training, capacity, and outreach.
MI PFC leadership will keep all this in mind as actionable items are approached within sub-committees.
