Rogue Basin Prescribed Fire Training Exchange

The Rogue Basin Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (RBTREX) is a collaboration between local agencies, non-profits, and community organizations advancing local capacity to put prescribed fire to work in ecological restoration and providing hands-on training opportunities. RBTREX brings together new and seasoned fire practitioners alike who are looking to gain experience and advance their certifications on live understory prescribed fire operations. We also bring added capacity to existing landscape-scale restoration projects in the Rogue Basin, providing additional personnel resources that allow agency and NGO partners to accomplish more acres of treatment.

The mission of RBTREX is to promote effective cooperative prescribed burning to build robust local capacity—helping diverse partners bring together staff, skills, resources, and cultural perspectives to optimize opportunities for prescribed fire education, forest stewardship, and professional training. 

RBTREX partners envision resilient, fire-adapted communities and landscapes maintained by diverse community members and a network of partners learning from and using prescribed fire together when specific conditions and resources allow.

How does the program work?

The RBTREX is creating opportunities for diverse fire practitioners from around the region to advance their skills and certifications through hands-on trainings during prescribed burns at ecological restoration project sites. RBTREX participants are on standby as fire managers watch for appropriate spring conditions, when the ground dries enough to carry low-intensity fire, combined with an exacting combination of temperatures, humidity, winds, and fire management personnel and equipment for safe fire containment. When conditions align, fire management officers at the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management Medford District can request RBTREX personnel to assist and learn during planned prescribed fire operations.

How is RBTREX funded?

Rogue Basin TREX is supported by a grant titled Promoting Ecosystem Resilience and Fire Adapted Communities Together, a cooperative agreement between The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior.

Learning Together, Burning Together.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

A diverse fire practitioner workforce increases knowledge, skills and abilities by sharing scientific ecological knowledge, local knowledge of weather patterns and fire behavior, and cultural knowledge. When landowners, volunteers, biologists, scientists, managers and other individuals are trained and qualified, they may assist with prescribed burns and other fire management activities.

Partners of RBTREX

The Rogue Basin Prescribed Fire Training Exchange is co-produced by the Rogue Forest Partners, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and The Nature Conservancy, with additional support from these partners: