Preparing for Wildfires with Firescaping is a project designed to increase Southeastern U.S. wildfire preparedness by educating community members about fire-resilient landscaping, or firescaping. Through several presentations and activities, the training will teach participants about Southeastern U.S. wildland fire history, fire behavior, home ignition, plant flammability, firescaping design and maintenance, home wildfire risk assessment, combining firescaping with other landscape objectives, recommendations for sharing firescaping with the broader community, and more.
Access the free online firescaping training at: https://nick.ugaurbanag.com/course/view.php?id=9
Help your community be better prepared!
Interested to offer the training in your community? Please contact the Firescaping Project Manager: Holly Campbell, hollycam@uga.edu
Project Partners include: Southern Regional Extension Forestry, University of Georgia (UGA) Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, UGA Cooperative Extension.
This work is supported by Smith-Lever Special Needs grant no. 2017-41210-27085 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to address disaster education through Extension programming.
Public Service Associate
Director, Southern Regional Extension Forestry
Senior Public Service Associate
Associate Professor, Silviculture
Assistant Professor of Wildlife Habitat Management