NC Prescribed Fire Council Committees
Education and Outreach
The Education and Outreach sub-committee has designed a Communications Plans and a brochure on the Council. It is also tasked with continuing to develop and improve the Council's website. If you have some background in outreach or just want to try a new challenge, we have several projects where we could use your help.
Chair: Kelley Van Druten
Membership
The Membership sub-committee recruits and tracks membership for the Prescribed Fire Council.
Chair: Mark Megalos
Implementation
The Implementation sub-committee works closely with the other subcommittees to identify factors that impede practitioner use of prescribed fire both on public and private lands. It will develop solutions/ actions to ameliorate these problems. It will provide a means of supporting and enhancing certified burner and other current and future training programs designed to organize and train responsible, experienced prescribed burners.
Chair: Kevin Harvell
Data Collection and Information
The Data Collection and Information sub-committee gathers data on where prescribed burning in NC currently is conducted (location, fire frequency, burning entity, goals), delineates where more prescribed burning would be beneficial to natural resources and identifies the impediments to implementing prescribed burning in maintaining ecosystem health.
Chair: Christa Rogers
Regulatory/Policy and Environment
The Regulatory/Policy and Environment sub-committee will identify potential issues (e.g. air quality and/or wetlands) that could affect the use of prescribed fire and develop solutions in cooperation with regulatory agencies. It will provide an active conservation voice in legislative proceedings that debate the future of prescribed fire as a primary tool for wildlife, forest and ecosystem management in North Carolina.
Co-chairs: Cynthia Van der Wiele and Bob Mickler
Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting sub-committee is tasked with organizing the Council's Annual Meeting. If you like to make sure the meeting covers what you need as a prescribed burner, this is the committee to join!
Chair: Doug Sprouse