1. Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability Rx Fire Work Group LAURIE GHARIS, PH.D. JENNIFER EVANS

2. Outline 2 Priority Goals Current Efforts Partnerships Future Efforts

3. Priorities 3 Training Smoke management/air quality Liability Adequate prescribed fire resources Photo by Laurie Gharis, North Carolina State University

4. Current Efforts 4 Online educational tools Options for prescribed fire resource sharing Field days Partnerships Photo by Jennifer Evans, North Carolina State University

5. Online Educational Tools 5 Smoke management mobile app Webinars Online curriculum Interactive prescribed fire videos

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12. Field Day Overview 12 Participants: Landowners and Key Stakeholders Number of Field Days: 5 Number of Participants: 30 per field day Locations: Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina Time Frame: Summer 2014 Collaborators: NRCS, State Forestry Agencies, US Forest Service, State Air Quality, National Wild Turkey Federation Fort Bragg, North Carolina

13. Work Group & Partnerships 13 Federal, State, NGO representatives Air and Fire representatives Resources and time from state, federal, and NGO’s New endeavors: Military/State Partnership Photo by Jennifer Evans, North Carolina State University

14. Future 14 Current priorities are still important for future What actions will move us ahead on priorities? Prescribed Burn Associations Burn Statistics Field Days for Landowners Partnerships, Burn Teams, Training Exchanges

15. Questions 15 Twitter: @SE_RxFire Facebook: Southeast Rx Fire Blog: http://cnr.ncsu.edu/blogs/southeast-fire-update/http://cnr.ncsu.edu/blogs/southeast-fire-update/ E-mail: Laurie Gharis lwilson@ncsu.edu or Jennifer Evans jlevans3@ncsu.edulwilson@ncsu.edujlevans3@ncsu.edu