Fuels and Vegetation Education Program Homepage
Swanton Pacific Ranch's Fuels and Vegetation Education (FAVE) program educates professionals about wildfire fuel mitigation and vegetation management approaches with the goal of increasing the pace and scale of fuels and vegetation management to build a more sustainable and fire resilient landscape for every Californian.
Funded by CALFIRE's Healthy Forest Initiative and the California Climate Initiative, the FAVE program offers webinars and field-based workshops in every corner of California. Our work to date has focused on training participants to improve their understanding of using the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP) with examples of successful projects in various locations. We have also helped participants to increase their knowledge and skill in the use of prescribed fire. And, we have featured webinars and field training's focused on sharing lessons learned from fuels reductions projects in many different settings.
In the future, we will be featuring more emphasis on fuels reduction projects and prescribed burning. We are excited to offer the California State-Certified Prescribed Fire Burn Boss Training (CARX) as well as pre-requisites. And, we will expand our geographical reach across California to feature leaders in vegetation management and the innovative ways that they approach projects that make ecosystems and Californians more resilient to wildfire.
If you have a project or initiative that you would like us to feature with one of our trainings, please drop us a line with your suggestion.
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Upcoming trainings:
March 1-2nd, 2025: Good Fire Workshop
This Weekend Field Workshop is an opportunity for community members to learn about How Good Fire can help mitigate wildfire risk, create community wildfire resilience and protect natural and cultural resources in Butte County.
March 8th, 2025: Wildfire Resilience for Communities in East Sonoma County
This field workshop is an opportunity to learn about fuels management, wildfire resilience, and community protection through examples of work by local communities within the Mayacamas Range.
