Wildland Fire Ecology and Management

This track expands an existing certificate program in Wildland Fire Ecology and Management. It is intended to meet a growing demand for professional wildfire managers in the U.S. West (National Wildfire Coordinating Group 2009).

Curricular elements in this track include courses in wildland fire ecology and management, fuels inventory and mapping, combustion, fire behavior and fuels management, prescribed burning lab, GIS applications in natural resources, remote sensing of the environment, wildland restoration ecology, and global environmental change.

PSM students in this track will follow a translational curriculum that begins with the science of fire and extends through multiple aspects of fire management.