Northwest Fire Learning NetworkAbout the NW Fire Learning Network
By Rob Lindner on 4/27/2009 | Keyword(s): About; FLN
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 | The Northwest Fire Learning Network comprises five landscapes with the overarching goal of accelerating natural fire regime restoration through collaborative strategic planning. Shared vision encourages stakeholders to manage their landscapes and find solutions that lead to restoration and fuel treatments at appropriate scales. |
The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and others developed the Northwest Fire Learning Network as part of a joint effort to restore fire adapted ecosystems. The Northwest network is one of nine regional groups across the country that makes up the national Fire Learning Network.
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Why does the FLN exist?
In the United States and many other parts of the world, fires are behaving differently now than they have throughout history, largely as a result of human actions. An estimated 53% of U.S. forests and rangelands have altered fire dynamics. The U.S. Fire Learning Network (USFLN) is engaging dozens of multi-agency, community-based projects in a process that accelerates the restoration of landscapes that depend on fire to sustain native plants and animals. Fire Learning Networks are funded through the Restoring Fire Adapted Ecosystems Cooperative Agreement between US Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, and the Department of Interior.
Learn more about the U.S. Fire Learning NetworkThe purpose of the NW Fire Learning Network is to accelerate the restoration of fire-adapted systems by networking several interagency landscape teams together through a series of facilitated workshops. While each landscape project works collaboratively with diverse stakeholders on local forest and fire management issues, these workshops provide the opportunity for peer review and the transfer of technology and innovative ideas among the participating landscapes.
What current issues or values are being examined through the FLN?
•Hazardous Fuels
•Wildfire
•Wildland-Urban Interface
•Forest and Fire Restoration
•Wildlife Habitat
•Small Diameter Utilization
•Watershed Function
•Recreation
Fast Fire Facts: •Every terrestrial ecosystem Earth has evolved with fire and can rely on it to stimulate growth, curb non-native plants, minimize pests and disease, and keep plant and animal communities healthy. •The Conservancy estimates that to restore fire-prone forest conditions on public lands in Oregon, we need to increase three to five times the current annual treatment levels for the next 20-25 years. •In Oregon, 21.1 million acres of forests and woodlands are moderately or highly modified from historic conditions due to fire suppression, grazing, logging and other land uses and 6 million of these acres are on public lands.
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