Lake EcoCultural Cal-TREX
Prescribed Fire & Cultural Burning Training Exchange
Building capacity for tribes, community members, private landowners, agencies and NGO’s to work together to bring good fire back to the land, for the benefit of all.
The Lake EcoCultural Cal-TREX is a prescribed and cultural fire training exchange led by the Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance (TERA) in partnership with Tribes, agencies, and community organizations. TREX take place across the country and around the world to address one of the most fundamental ways to shift fire culture: giving more people the opportunity to work with fire. Lake EcoCultural Cal-TREX partners include:
Lake EcoCultural Cal-TREX integrates training and collaborative burning to build local capacity and steward land with fire
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EcoCultural Fire Trainings
The Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance offers a series of trainings as part of the Lake EcoCultural Cal-TREX to support our community in safely and effectively implementing prescribed and cultural fire.
Our trainings focus on learning about good fire through an EcoCultural Stewardship lens.
Many of our trainings also support building NWCG qualifications for fireline positions.
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Collaborative Burning
Throughout the Cal-TREX season (October through June), TERA plans and implements collaborative prescribed and cultural burns on private, public, and Tribal land across Lake and Mendocino counties, in partnership with Tribes, agencies, and organizations.
The goals of these burns include to support cultural revitalization, improve the health of oak woodlands and grasslands, enhance wildlife habitat, provide capacity building and training around beneficial burning, and reduce fuel loading and increase wildfire resilience.
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EcoCultural Fire Crew
As part of the Lake EcoCultural Cal-TREX, our on-call EcoCultural Fire Crew works to return cultural burning and prescribed fire to our ancestral lands. Crew members assist with preparing, scouting, briefing, igniting, holding, fire effects monitoring, extinguishment, securement, and patrol on prescribed and cultural burns.
EcoCultural Fire Crew members will be notified of burn windows as they arise throughout the season (October through June) and can sign up to participate on dates they are available.
Interested in good fire on your land?
We are available to support Tribes, private landowners, and other organizations with:
Identifying and assessing potential burn units
Creating ecocultural burn goals and objectives
Writing burn plans and securing permits
Mobilizing people and resources to conduct a safe and successful burn through the Lake EcoCultural Cal-TREX
WE ARE GRATEFUL TO OUR FUNDERS!
Lake County EcoCultural Cal-TREX is made possible with funding from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) as part of the
California Climate Investments Program through a Workforce Development grant.