{"id":70737,"date":"2025-11-26T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70737\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:38:10","slug":"foresters-prescribed-fire-experts-swap-knowledge-at-california-training-to-reduce-wildfire-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70737\/","title":{"rendered":"Foresters, prescribed-fire experts swap knowledge at California training to reduce wildfire impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-26-060446-e1764165962993-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-546073\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: Fresh out of high school, Marcus Hampshire, a member of the United Auburn Indian Community, was invited by his uncle to participate in a cultural burn \u2013 the controlled use of fire by Indigenous peoples to manage the land. He was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom then on, I always had a torch in my hand or I was dragging fire with a tool,\u201d said Hampshire, who is part of the\u00a0Fire Leadership for Intertribal Conservation Knowledge-keeping Eco-cultural Revitalization (F.L.I.C.K.E.R.) Crew. \u201cI really enjoy being able to see how fire works on the landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Providing the public a chance to see beneficial fire in action was one objective of the second Forester Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (FTREX), held Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 in and around the University of California, Berkeley Blodgett Forest Research Station.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 people participated in the hands-on training event in El Dorado County, which brought together foresters, land managers, fire professionals and cultural practitioners such as Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/91360e9aeb060e767f478f44d40ac945.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"FTREX Helps Foresters Learn to Reduce Wildfire Risk Using Prescribed Burns\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Fresh out of high school, Marcus Hampshire, a member of the United Auburn Indian Community, was invited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,15102],"class_list":["post-70737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-wildland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}