We provide nationally recognized wildland fire training, consulting for homeowners, and qualified implementation resources for achieving a variety of land management goals.
Terra Fuego supports projects on federal and private land to create the resources land managers need to achieve their ecological and fire prevention goals.
Terra Fuego can find the funding and qualified professionals to safely and efficiently implement prescribed burns for ecological improvement or vegetation management.
Education through collaboration with other non-profit organizations on prescribed fire projects.
Protecting Nature By Proper Forestry Management!
Applying fire to improve forests and range land is a collaborative effort with local fire authorities, resource regulators, land management agencies, fire safe councils, and nearby communities.
How We Aim to Help
First and foremost education is key. We need to start by teaching local governments and landowners how a controlled burn can be done safely and effectively in order to prevent or diminish catastrophe down the road.
Promote Awareness
Educating and collaborating about the importance of controlled burns.
Professional Consults
Public and private sector consults, grant writing, and project management.
Landscape Management
Landscape restoration, conservation, and risk reduction to ecosystem health.
Job Development
Wildland chainsaw, basic fire behavior, and incident command operations.
Terra Fuego Mission
Terra Fuego Resource Foundation advocates the creation and maintenance of healthy forests, grasslands and open space through accepted land management practices, including prescribed burning, mechanical manipulation of fuels and control and eradication of invasive species.
Understanding Prescribed Fire
A prescribed fire, or controlled burn, is a method of forest management used to clear an area of fuel (dried leaves, shrubs, dead plant matter) that a wildfire could use to spread quicker.
The prescribed fire removes old vegetation to make room for new growth. It shifts soil nutrients to a state more favorable to prairie species and helps reduce the spread of invasive and pest species. A proscribed fire consumes excess fuel, such as dead and downed trees, reducing dangerous and intense wildfires.