2024 Santa Barbara Training Exchange (TREX)
UCSB Sedgwick Reserve, Santa Ynez, CA & Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, Lompoc, CA
November 9th - 18th, 2024
Deadline to Apply Was September 9, 2024 at 12pm
Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX) and cooperative burns provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for fire management and offers fire practitioners a more holistic perspective. The key focus of TREX is promoting the spread of effective cooperative burning—helping diverse partners leverage skills, resources and staff in ways that maximize opportunities for outreach, treatment and training. The Santa Barbara TREX sought to build capacity for community-based burning by promoting the ecological health of diverse Santa Barbara landscapes while meeting cultural, conservation, training, and wildfire mitigation outcomes.
2024 TREX firelighters engaged in 10 days of training on breathtaking wildlands, learning and working alongside professional fire practitioners, tribal partners, ranchers, land managers, and community members to meet diverse objectives using beneficial fire. Firelighters of varying experience worked on a range of Rx fire skills and task books, from firing and holding operations, to unit preparation and mop-up, to taking on leadership training assignments.
View additional information in the event flier.
When applying to the SBTREX, Indigenous applicants had the opportunity to request financial support through the Indigenous Stipend Program. View the stipend flyer for additional information here.
