Fire Tools and Equipment Use Field Day

 The University of California Cooperative Extension Placer-Nevada Office, The Nevada County Resource Conservation District, the Placer Resource Conservation District, and the UCNR Fire Network are offering the first-of-its-kind Rancher’s Fire Academy for ranchers in the Sierra Foothill and Sierra Nevada regions. This series of workshops and field days will focus on: 

1. (a) Education and hands-on training for ranchers regarding the use of prescribed fire for range improvement, weed management, and fuel load reduction; and (b) Creating new and strengthening existing rancher networks to assist in preparing for and responding to wildfire with the region. 

The Fire Tools and Equipment Use Field Day will take place at Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center in Browns Valley. Register below. For more information, contact Dan Macon at dmacon@ucanr.edu or (530) 889-7385.