We are excited to bring you a shared-learning experience with vibrant, interactive sessions including sessions on:

• Fire and land management in our “new normal”
• Indigenous and cultural burning
• Communicating the “hard truths” of decision-making with your stakeholders
• America Burning-WUI
• Climate 21
• Cross-boundary, large landscape collaboration

Please share your experiences! We welcome proposals that utilize shared learning and participation that address key issues and considerations such as, but not limited to:  

• Prioritization, collective investment and the co-management of risk
• Implementation of prescribed fire in consideration of air quality issues and smoke
• Fire Adaptation challenges such as preparing communities to receive smoke from wildfire and/or prescribed fire
• Post-fire impacts and recovery
• Home hardening
• Workforce development, capacity issues and successional planning
• Science and new technology advancements and examples of research partnerships
• Climate change impacts on fire seasons, fire activity and vegetation management
• Large landscape, cross-boundary collaboration
• Innovations, adaptation and resiliency from your COVID-19 experience
• Communications – what’s working, what’s not. Motivating stakeholders to take action and the most important messages for different audiences
• Other

Include in your proposal what your learning objectives are and how they align with the Cohesive Strategy.

Session Formats: Please describe your session format and time requested – a five-minute ignite talk, poster or interactive presentation. Some ideas for an interactive session include: facilitated discussion, Fail Faire,  World Café, or a Story Circle. Be creative!