Fire and Conservation - What's New With the Global Fire Initiative; fire ecology; prescribed fire

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With your help we can restore the natural role of fire in our landscapes.

The Nature Conservancy staff work at hundreds of priority sites across the globe where fire is a significant conservation issue. Learn about some of our recent successes.

See how prescribed fire has helped to restore natural areas throughout Virginia.
The Conservancy's new fire director talks about lessons learned from the 1988 Yellowstone fires.
The Conservancy has launched a new public education tool to teach people about fire's role in Latin America. View the guide in Spanish.
Wildfires destroy...so why is the solution more fire? Read about it in the Nature Conservancy Autumn 2008 story "Fire School."
Can fire restore habitat for a toad? See how the Conservancy is using fire to restore habitat for the Amargosa Toad in Nevada.
Postcards from the Field: Fire Training in Texas.
Helping Forests and Timber Towns: Protecting forests from fire and creating jobs — see why we support the Forest Landscape Restoration Act.
Postcards from the Field: A Conservancy biologist learns what it takes to become a member of the prescribed burn crew.
Learn more about the California wildfires — and their effect on people and nature — in this Q&A with a Conservancy scientist.
Michigan's Fire Manager discusses the state's third-largest fire in its history.
A new report urges global action to address the role of fire in conservation.
The Conservancy exports its fire expertise to Ethiopia.
An innovative partnership is renewed to restore fire's role in maintaining landscapes.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo: © Eric Aldrich/TNC (Conservancy Staff at a prescribed fire); © Harold E. Malde (Prescribed burn in Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana).