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Course Description: This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and communicate the relationship between basic fire regimes and fire effects, the effects of fire treatments on fire effects, and to manipulate fire treatments to achieve desired fire effects. In an effort to maintain the currency and relevency of the course materials for RX-310, Introducation to Fire Effects, the instructional design has been modified to allow instructors to develop materials based on current information, changing technologies, and the needs of the students. This course also leads students through the ecological and historical role of fire, characteristics of smoke and the health, safety and visibility impacts of smoke. Other topics include public relations, legal requirement, meteorology, fuel consumption, smoke production dispersion modeling, and operational smoke management strategies. This course is designed to be interactive in nature. It contains a panel discussion, several exercises designed to facilitate group and class participation and case studies from a variety of fuel types and political challenges. The pre-course work assignment is designed to familiarize students with the NWCG Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fire, PMS 420-2, and air quality regulations that impact prescribed fire programs. Course Components and Hours to Complete:
Prescribed Fire Burn Boss Type 1 (RXB1) and Long Term Fire Analyst (LTAN). Other positions that would benefit from RX-410 include Fire Effects Monitor (FEMO), air regulators, fire ecologists, private landowners, other state and private agencies, prescribed fire consultants, and fire planners.
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Students should have a background in prescribed fire planning, implementing, monitoring, permitting or smoke/air regulating. |
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Brock Campbell Daniel Boone NF |
(859) 745-3185 |