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Fire Use Training Academy / Prescribed Fire Training Center
These programs are designed to give participants a mix of classroom and field experience focused on prescribed fire implementation. FUTA holds regularly scheduled S-courses followed by field time while PFTC is primarily focused on field time with courses provided as time permits.
Fire Use Training Academy Created in 1998 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Southwest Fire Use Training Academy is a national interagency fuels program that uniquely blends classroom and field experience on forests and rangelands throughout the United States.
Prescribed Fire Training Center
The Prescribed Fire Training Center (PFTC), located in Tallahassee, Florida, is a unique program blending maximum field prescribed burning experience with a flexible curriculum of classroom instruction on topics of interest to prescribed fire practitioners. Attendees will have the opportunity to complete portions of their National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) approved prescribed fire task books under the guidance of invited training specialists.
Wildland Fire Training
Web site that enables access to Local Area, Geographic Area, National, and other related Interagency Wildland Fire Training information.
Wildland Fire Leadership Development Program
Web site provides information which allows individuals to strive for a higher performance level as a leader through self-directed learning opportunities.
