Promoting Fire Ecology Research, Education, and Management
The Association for Fire Ecology is an international organization dedicated to improving the knowledge and use of fire in land management. We are scientists, educators, students, managers, practitioners, policymakers, and interested citizens helping to shape the emerging profession and growing field of fire ecology.
AFE news
The interagency Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is soliciting proposals from both government and non-government entities through several formal Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcements beginning July 7th and closing on September 17th at 5 PM MT.
Part of a collaboration between the FireGeneration Collaborative and Ecosystem Workforce Program, this working paper shares experiences in the fire field, desires for future work with fire, and ideas for making change from young people.
Two student-focused collaborative groups have been formed by members of the Education Committee and collaborators as part of the Student Fireline Project: the Student Rx Fire Collaborative Group and the Student Red Card System Collaborative Group.
The AFE Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Kori Blankenship and Jennifer Fawcett as new board members!
Contribute to an international study on wildfire resilience, which is gathering place-based insights into the opportunities and challenges of building resilience across fire-prone regions worldwide.
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Upcoming EVENTs
Join the Association for Fire Ecology, UC ANR Fire Network, California Fire Science Consortium, Northern California Prescribed Fire Council, Tall Timbers Research Station, and University of Nevada Extension/Living With Fire in San Diego December 7-11, 2026 for the Beneficial Fire Summit!
SAFE Chapter News
Learn about what several SAFE chapters have been up to in this recap of the Spring 2026 all-chapters meeting.
This year, the University of Montana Fire Club welcomed a diverse lineup of guest speakers whose experiences span from science communication, research, to operational sciences within the wildfire realm.
LATEST JOB POSTINGS
As a Land Stewards Fire Crew Member, you will work as part of a team that is highly motivated to restore fire processes across Yurok ancestral lands and beyond. Crew members participate in the implementation of cultural burning aimed at achieving culturally appropriate land management objectives such as habitat restoration, enhancing biodiversity, reducing wildfire risk, restoring and maintaining ecological conditions and processes, and removing invasive and unwanted species.
The incumbent will be part of a four-person team that will conduct habitat management work on cooperating private land and targeted public lands within designated priority geographies in Southwest Georgia as part of GADNR’s Bobwhite Quail Initiative.
This position is part of a partnership between Pheasants and Quail Forever (QF), The Longleaf Alliance, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR), and The Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and several other agencies. Under the direction of the Quail Forever SC Prescribed Fire Coordinator, incumbents will conduct prescribed fire and habitat management work on cooperating private land as well as targeted public lands within designated priority geographies within South Carolina as part of the state’s Quail management program.
Multiple flexible and on-call temporary positions for NWCG qualified personnel (FFT1+) to provide mentorship and hands-on training to Lake Cal-TREX participants and TERA’s intertribal hand crew.
afe podcast: Fire Ecology Chats
Peter Breigenzer and Jay Wason discuss using terrestrial lidar (TLS) to better understand how forest cover influences understory temperature, relative humidity, and dead fuel moisture in mesic forests in the north-east US.

An article recently published in Fire Ecology examines how fire suppression effects species like Baker Cypress.