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