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Idaho Prescribed Fire Council

About

The mission of the Idaho Prescribed Fire Council is to serve as a forum to advance the safe and effective use of prescribed fire across Idaho. The IFPC provides information on rules and procedures, prescribed fire demonstrations and training, and connecting practitioners with interested community members.

Anyone who has an interest in promoting or understanding the use of prescribed fire in Idaho is welcome to get involved. This could include private land-owners, federal, state, and private land managers, tribes, air quality regulators, policymakers, and involved citizens.

We are open to partnering to:

  1. get healthy prescribed fire on the landscape, or;
  2. educate about the benefits of using prescribed fire as a management tool.

What is Prescribed Fire?

The controlled application of fire to wildland fuels in either their natural or modified state under such conditions of weather, fuel moisture, soil moisture, etc., as will allow the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and at the same time produce the intensity of heat and rate of spread required to accomplish planned objectives. (As defined by the State of Idaho.)

Members

  • Brett Miller

    Outreach Coodinator

    Brett Alan Miller is a postdoctoral researcher for the Department of Society & Conservation in the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation at the University of Montana who studies collaborative governance of wildland fire in cross-boundary social-ecological systems. He is also a research partner on the “Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission” project, funded through the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Brett’s research focuses on finding and implementing applied solutions as part of collaborative teams, such as the Southwestern Forest Restoration Initiative, which is dedicated to funding efforts that reduce high-severity, stand replacing fires through forest restoration.

    Brett earned his Ph.D. in Environmental, Community, and Natural Resource Sociology from Utah State University with a secondary emphasis in Climate Adaptation Science. His Master of Science in Natural Resources was earned at the University of Idaho where he also earned a Bioregional Planning Certificate with an emphasis on rural community development. Currently, Brett is pleased to live in Boise, Idaho with his wife and son. He and is family love the people and landscapes of Idaho, from the southeast to the northern panhandle.

    Brett Alan Miller is a postdoctoral researcher for the Department of Society & Conservation in the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation at the University of Montana who studies collaborative governance of wildland fire in cross-boundary social-ecological systems. He is also a research partner on the “Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission” project, funded through the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Brett’s research focuses on finding and implementing applied solutions as part of collaborative teams, such as the Southwestern Forest Restoration Initiative, which is dedicated to funding efforts that reduce high-severity, stand replacing fires through forest restoration.

    Brett earned his Ph.D. in Environmental, Community, and Natural Resource Sociology from Utah State University with a secondary emphasis in Climate Adaptation Science. His Master of Science in Natural Resources was earned at the University of Idaho where he also earned a Bioregional Planning Certificate with an emphasis on rural community development. Currently, Brett is pleased to live in Boise, Idaho with his wife and son. He and is family love the people and landscapes of Idaho, from the southeast to the northern panhandle.