Nov 9 - 20, 2026 S-290 – Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior
Training Course
The Student of Fire Initiative at the University of Idaho is offering this course for Fall '26. All courses areadministered virtually through the Wildland Fire Learning Portal with a combination of self-paced lessonsand exercises and live-online meetings.
Cost: $300
A skills focused course designed to prepare the developing fireline supervisor to undertake safe and effective fire management operations.
Total Course Hours: 40 hours (24 hours of interactive self-paced lessons, 16 hours of…
Nov 30, 2026 Snow, Forests, Water, and Fires
Presentation
Jessica Lundquist from the University of Washington will be the concluding speaker of the Plum Creek Lecture Series.
Nov 30 - Dec 10, 2026 S-215 – Fire Operations in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Training Course
The Student of Fire Initiative at the University of Idaho is offering this course for Fall '26. All courses areadministered virtually through the Wildland Fire Learning Portal with a combination of self-paced lessonsand exercises and live-online meetings.
NOTE: There is a "morning" and "evening" session for this course being offered concurrently, please register for and attend either the morning OR evening set of sessions.
Cost: $300
This virtual, instructor-led course combines the power of…
Dec 7 - 11, 2026 Beneficial Fire Summit
Conference
This event aims to bring practitioners, researchers, community members, Tribes, agencies, NGOs, PBAs, and everyone else together to celebrate all of our recent progress, share insights and ideas, and put our heads together about what the next phase of this work might look like, not only in California, but across the West. This won't be a typical conference—we hope to create an engaging, productive space, with workshops, field tours, focused sessions, and lots of time for networking and…
Nov 16 - Dec 11, 2026 RX-310 – Introduction to Fire Effects
Training Course
The Student of Fire Initiative at the University of Idaho is offering this course for Fall '26. All courses areadministered virtually through the Wildland Fire Learning Portal with a combination of self-paced lessonsand exercises and live-online meetings.
Cost: $300
Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and communicate the relationships between basic fire regimes and fire effects, the effects of fire treatments on fire effects, and to manipulate fire treatments…
Dec 28, 2026 - Jan 2, 2027 Wildland Firefighter Wellness Retreat - Tassajara
Workshop
FUSEE and the San Francisco Zen Center are offering this mindfulness-based retreat for wildland firefighters as a way to give back to these communities and to support our first responders. This 6-day retreat is intended to help provide refuge, rest and renewal as well as trauma-sensitive training in mindfulness, meditation and Sensory Awareness. There will some time volunteering to help to care for Tassajara Mountain Zen Center, and to integrate mindfulness practice into fire…
Jan 19 - 24, 2027 Wildland Firefighter Wellness Retreat - Great Vow
Workshop
FUSEE and Great Vow Zen Monastery are offering this mindfulness-based retreat for wildland firefighters as a way to give back to these communities and to support our first responders. This 6-day retreat is intended to help provide refuge, rest and renewal as well as trauma-sensitive training in mindfulness, meditation and Sensory Awareness. There will some time volunteering to help to care for Great Vow, and to integrate mindfulness practice into fire prevention and working on the…