U.S. Fire Learning Network

Fostering innovation and transferring lessons

In the United States and many other parts of the world, fires are behaving differently now than they have throughout history, largely as a result of human actions. An estimated 80% of U.S. forests and rangelands have altered fire dynamics. The U.S. Fire Learning Network (USFLN) is engaging dozens of multi-agency, community-based projects in a process that ac ...learn more

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Created: Oct 14, 2008

Updated: Nov 12, 2009

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Name: U.S. Fire Learning Network
 
Alternate Name: USFLN
 
Tagline: Fostering innovation and transferring lessons
 
Address: United States
 
Scope: national
 

About

In the United States and many other parts of the world, fires are behaving differently now than they have throughout history, largely as a result of human actions. An estimated 80% of U.S. forests and rangelands have altered fire dynamics. The U.S. Fire Learning Network (USFLN) is engaging dozens of multi-agency, community-based projects in a process that accelerates the restoration of landscapes that depend on fire to sustain native plants and animals. By restoring this balance, the ecological, economic and social values of the landscapes can be maintained, and the threat of catastrophophic wildfire can be reduced.

 

Goal

By fostering innovation and transferring lessons learned to other landscape projects, scientists and decision makers, the U.S. Fire Learning Network will accelerate the implementation of ecologically based and culturally acceptable fuels reduction and fire regime restoration strategies at ecologically meaningful scales and in high-priority habitats and landscapes.

 

Overview

Network projects cover more than 76 million acres. Operating at local, regional and national levels, the U.S. Fire Learning Network seeks to overcome barriers to implementing ecologically appropriate fuels reduction and restoration projects using a four-step process.

The Network presently comprises eight regional networks:

  • Appalachian
  • California Klamath-Siskiyou
  • Centennial
  • Florida - Caribbean
  • Great Plains
  • Northwest
  • South Central
  • Southern Blue Ridge

There are also several demonstration landscapes, most of which are embedded within regional networks where they are demonstrating best practices for collaboration and restoration, and actively sharing what they are learning.

 

Our quarterly newsletter, the FLN Dispatch, and some additional USFLN documents can be found through on the publications page. Information about recent and upcoming workshops can be found on many of the individual FLN pages. Documents and products from earlier workshops can be found in the workshop archive.

The network is a joint project of The Nature Conservancy’s Global Fire Initiative, the USDA Forest Service and the US Department of the Interior.