PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: SPRING 2013
WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER TRAINING
Basic Wildland Firefighter Training
Are you looking for a summer job or a career with a natural resource agency? Will your career include prescribed burning for habitat and conservation management? Do you want to improve your wildland fire knowledge and obtain national certification?
This training is part of the wildland and prescribed fire qualifications system used by all federal agencies (such as the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land management, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs or U.S. Fish and Wildlife) and many state and private wildland and prescribed fire management agencies.
This course will assist in your preparation for national certification, and is taught by representatives of the Six Rivers National Forest. Specifically, students will earn certificates for the following classes:
- I-100 Introduction to Incident Command System
- L-180 Human Factors on the Fireline
- S-190 Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior
- S-130 Firefighting Training
- IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Attendance all days is required. Pre-registration is required by March 8.
This course includes a field trip. All participants are required to complete a Release of Liability form. See General Informaton for details.
date .......... Mon.-Fri., March 18-22
time .......... 8 a.m.-5 p.m. (one hour break for lunch)
fee .......... $220
place .......... FOR 204B
instr .......... Paul Johnson
course .......... FOR 480, 1 unit (CR/NC), 27658
Paul Johnson is the U.S. Forest Service division chief of the Lower Trinity (Calif.) Ranger District.
TO REGISTER:
- CALL 707-826-3731
(VISA/MC/Discover. Please have the above course data handy when you call.) - REGISTER ONLINE (VISA/MC/Discover)
Please fill out the online mailing list form so that you may be contacted early when a course is next offered.