Wildfire Wednesdays #38: Rx Fire Outreach Toolkit - Tribal Relations Peer Learning Session

Hi Fireshed Members,

This will be our last Wildfire Wednesdays before the holidays. The newsletter will resume on January 6th. As you all know, making our communities safe from wildfire is a year-round, incremental process. With that in mind, please follow along with the Wildfire Wednesday newsletters in the New Year to for step-by-step guidance to get ready for wildfire in 2021.

This week’s Wildfire Wednesdays newsletter features:

  • Put Fire to Work: A toolkit for communicating the importance of prescribed fire as a tool for wildfire resilience

  • Peer learning session Friday 12/18: Utilizing 638 for Tribal Relations and Promoting Tribal Fuels Treatments

Happy Holidays,

Gabe

Put Fire to Work: A Prescribed Fire Outreach Toolkit for Partners and Practitioners

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We are very excited to feature Put Fire to Work in this week’s Wildfire Wednesday. This user-friendly toolkit created by the Washington Prescribed Fire Council is a great resource for finding effective messages about the importance of prescribed fire as a tool for community wildfire resilience and forest health. The site features message templates as well as step-by-step guides for developing outreach that will be effective for the particular context that you live or work within.

In addition to the outreach content stored on this site, the site’s user-friendly layout is noteworthy. Digital toolkits like this serve help to take some of the work out of social media outreach and new-media approaches.

Click here to check out the Put Fire to Work website.

If you use the Put Fire to Work toolkit, don’t forget to show them your appreciation on social media.

Utilizing 638 for Tribal Relations

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Peer learning session on Friday, December 18th, from 1:30 – 3pm MST.

Click here to register.

Sponsored by the National Partnership Office and hosted by The National Forest Foundation.

During this peer learning session, attendees will:

  • Meet the new Director of the Forest Service Office of Tribal Relations,

  • Gain an understanding of the “638 self-determination demonstration authority” granted to the Forest Service in the 2018 Farm Bill,

  • Gain an understanding of the relationship between 638 and the Tribal Forest Protection Act,

  • Have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists.

Suggested Audience:

Forest Service employees, tribal partners looking to implement projects through 638, and natural resource collaborators

U.S. Forest Service Speakers include:

  • Reed Robinson, Director, Office of Tribal Relations;

  • Alicia-Bell Sheeter, Management and Program Analyst, Office of Tribal Relations; and

  • Alison Leiman, Grants Policy Specialists, Business Operations.

This session will be recorded and a link to the recording will be emailed to all registrants. If you are unable to attend the peer learning session but are interested, please register to ensure you receive the follow-up email.

Gabriel Kohler

The GSFFC is a coalition of public and private organizations. The GSFFC is not a subdivision of the State of New Mexico, as defined in the state’s Open Meetings Act, §§ 10-15-1 to 10-15-4 NMSA 1978. Although federal agencies participate in the GSFFC, the Coalition is not a federal advisory board and was not created by a federal agency, as defined by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), 5.U.S.C. app. 2, §§ 1 to 16 (2012). The GSFFC operates informally to support its partners, and is not incorporated as a non-profit, 501(C)(3), partnership, or other legal status.