Courses and Workshops
Bring Fire Knowledge to Your Community
From prescribed fire to fire behavior, I deliver hands-on, practical training rooted in real-world experience, right where you need it.
Interested in hosting a course in your area? Let’s make it easy. I take care of the logistics, ordering, and planning, including managing the participant list and coordinating with local partners. Whether you’re a community, agency, or contractor crew, I’ll bring the training to you. Just reach out and we’ll get started.
Self-Paced Online: RX-310 Introduction to Fire Effects
Learn how fire interacts with ecosystems and how we can monitor, understand, and manage its effects to support resilient landscapes.
Self-Paced Online: S-211 Fire Weather - Prescribed Fire Edition
Online S-211 Fire Weather and Environment - Prescribed Fire Editiion
Long-term Fire Effects Monitoring Workshop
Fire effects monitoring is used to examine ecological responses to fire over time and space. It is a critical piece in fire management planning to document the results, measure those results against future treatments, evaluate successes (and failures) and analyze the measurements against ecological, cultural, social and traditional values. Monitoring supports the story you want to share. This course helps you get your monitoring program started as you learn what and how to monitor.
Fall 2025 West Kootenays: S-390 Intermediate Fire Behaviour
Whether you're responding to wildfire, planning prescribed burns, or working in fuels management, understanding fire behaviour is essential for making sound decisions and communicating effectively on the ground.
After eight years of delivering this course with BC Wildfire Service, I’ve redesigned S-390 to better support the diverse realities of today’s fire practitioners, from wildfire suppression to controlled fire and FireSmart initiatives. This updated version bridges the gap between theory and practice, helping you build confidence in using the Red Book, writing burn prescriptions, and applying fire behaviour principles in real-world scenarios.
This is fire behaviour for professionals, taught by someone who works in fire.
Fall 2025 West Kootenays: S-219 Firing Operations
This course follows the NWCG standard for S-219 Firing Operations, delivered through a BC lens and customized for your crew, agency, or future projects. Whether you're supporting wildfire response, prescribed burning, or fuels treatment work, this course prepares you to plan and implement ignition operations safely and effectively.
Summer 2026: FMPs for Prescribed Fire Workshop
FMPs for Prescribed Fire Workshop
From Assessment to Application
Fuels Management Prescriptions (FMPs) are key to supporting prescribed fire, but too often, they don’t connect well to how fire actually behaves or how burns are implemented. This course helps bridge that gap. Let’s set the developers of the burn plan and burn team up for success!
Over five days, you’ll learn how to write practical, defensible FMPs that align with ecological goals, operational realities, with BC’s latest provincial template. You’ll gain hands-on experience with layout that is anchored in for logical burn units, fuels, fire behavior (S-390), and monitoring, guided by someone who is a RPF, AFE Wildland Fire Ecologist and practicing government certified Burn Boss and Fire Effects Monitor.
This course is for professionals who want to sharpen their judgment, expand their fire knowledge, and improve how they practice in prescribed fire.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this 5-day course, participants will be able to:
Understand the purpose and scope of a Fuels Management Prescription (FMP) within BC’s land management and wildfire mitigation context, particularly as it supports prescribed fire.
Apply field-based assessment techniques to evaluate stand structure, fuel conditions, and ecological values relevant to fuels treatment planning.
Use intermediate fire behavior knowledge to inform prescription design, including treatment layout, timing, and expected fire effects (complete the S390 course through the lens of FMPs and prescribed fire).
Design ecologically informed fuel treatments that are consistent with burn objectives and long-term ecosystem goals.
Incorporate monitoring and adaptive management principles to ensure prescriptions are defensible, measurable, and outcome-focused.
Develop a complete Fuels Management Prescription using the latest provincial template, aligned with operational feasibility and regulatory expectations.
Course includes the Field Guide to the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System aka Red Book, S-390 Student Manual and FMPs for Prescribed Fire Guide
Cranbrook: S-390 Intermediate Fire Behaviour
Whether you're responding to wildfire, planning prescribed burns, or working in fuels management, understanding fire behaviour is essential for making sound decisions and communicating effectively on the ground.
After eight years of delivering this course with BC Wildfire Service, I’ve redesigned S-390 to better support the diverse realities of today’s fire practitioners, from wildfire suppression to controlled fire and FireSmart initiatives. This updated version bridges the gap between theory and practice, helping you build confidence in using the Red Book, writing burn prescriptions, and applying fire behaviour principles in real-world scenarios.
This is fire behaviour for professionals, taught by someone who works in fire.
At successful completion of this course, participants will have met the following learning outcomes under the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System:
1. Identify and describe the characteristics of fuels, weather, and topography that influence fire behaviour.
2. Describe the interaction of fuels, weather, and topography on fire behaviour in wildfire, prescribed fire, fuels management and safety.
3. Interpret, communicate, apply, and document fire behaviour and weather information.
4. Demonstrate the use of weather tools and Red Book to determine primary outputs and fire behaviour predictions.
5. Recognize the FBP Fuel Type Descriptions and unique fire behaviour and effects for each type.
6. Apply the information to develop safe and effective fire management decisions, e.g., fuels management, prescribed fire, suppression.
Two days. Minimum of 12 to a maximum 20 students. Course comes with a Red Book and Student Workbook.
Williams Lake: S-390 Intermediate Fire Behaviour (one seat left)
Whether you're responding to wildfire, planning prescribed burns, or working in fuels management, understanding fire behaviour is essential for making sound decisions and communicating effectively on the ground.
After eight years of delivering this course with BC Wildfire Service, I’ve redesigned S-390 to better support the diverse realities of today’s fire practitioners, from wildfire suppression to controlled fire and FireSmart initiatives. This updated version bridges the gap between theory and practice, helping you build confidence in using the Red Book, writing burn prescriptions, and applying fire behaviour principles in real-world scenarios.
This is fire behaviour for professionals, taught by someone who works in fire.
At successful completion of this course, participants will have met the following learning outcomes under the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System:
1. Identify and describe the characteristics of fuels, weather, and topography that influence fire behaviour.
2. Describe the interaction of fuels, weather, and topography on fire behaviour in wildfire, prescribed fire, fuels management and safety.
3. Interpret, communicate, apply, and document fire behaviour and weather information.
4. Demonstrate the use of weather tools and Red Book to determine primary outputs and fire behaviour predictions.
5. Recognize the FBP Fuel Type Descriptions and unique fire behaviour and effects for each type.
6. Apply the information to develop safe and effective fire management decisions, e.g., fuels management, prescribed fire, suppression.
Two days. Minimum of 14 students up to a maximum of 20. This course comes with a Red Book and Student Workbook.
Since the first delivery in 2023, my courses have been proudly hosted with a variety of partners, including First Nations, government agencies, fire departments, and industry.
Long-term Fire Effects Monitoring Workshops: Cariboo Fire Centre, Ministry of Forests WRR Program, Ktunaxa, Lil’wat, Xwisten, CABIN, Ministry of Forests Stewardship, Ministry of Forests Forest Health, Kootenay BCTS, Lillooet Tribal Council, Ntityix Resources LP
S-390: Cranbrook FD, Kelowna FD, Chartwell Resource Group, Lil’wat, Williams Lake FD, Ktunaxa Nation Council
S-219: Kelowna FD, Lil’wat, Williams Lake FD, Ktunaxa Nation Council