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Wildland Fire Courses
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General Information:
We offer many courses which discuss wildland fire ecology and science,
these courses are designed for degree seeking and non-degree seeking
students who would like to learn more about the concepts, science and tools
currently used in fire ecology and management.
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Admissions, Registration and Costs:
Student who wish to take one of our courses must be admitted
to the University of Idaho as a undergraduate degree seeking or non-degree
seeking student and meet any prerequisite course work. We strongly recommend
that you contact us at chadh@uidaho.edu
to talk to an advisor who will help you develop an individualized program of
study to help meet your educational needs.
The cost of a course will depend upon your enrollment status, the delivery method of the courses you take
and any additional fees associated with the specific course.
To view the current student costs for full time and part time students
CLICK HERE.
For more information
on an individual course please contact us at
chadh@uidaho.edu .
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A look at a few of our courses: |
 FOR 426 Wildland Fire Ecology and Management
This class is designed to give you an in-depth understanding of fire ecology
in a variety of ecosystems. We will focus on fire's effects on plants,
animals, soils, water and air. The emphasis of this course is to understand
fire as an ecological process in wildland systems. |
FOR 427 Prescribed Burning Lab
Students who take this course will have a unique opportunity to plan,
conduct and evaluate a prescribed fire. In doing so, they learn many of the
computer and field tools for projecting fire behavior, analyzing weather,
inventorying fuels and evaluating success relative to specific management
objectives the burns were designed to accomplish. |
FOR 433 Science Based Fuels Management Planning
This course focuses on the potentials, limitations, and applications of
recently developed tools used in fuels management and planning. We talk
extensively about the use of computer-based simulations and modeling in
planning and stress the importance of critical thinking and communication
during the planning process. |
FOR 435 Remote Sensing of Active Fire and Post Fire Effects
This course discusses the application, potential and limitations of methods
for remote sensing active and post fire effects. During this courses
students will interpret fire effects data, discuss terminology, review the
use of different scales, and look at the the merits of remote sensing. |
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FOR 450 Combustion, fire Behavior and Fuels
This course is designed to teach students the process of combustion in
wildland fuels and how it can be modeled and used to make predictions about
the properties of a fire. Topics include fire as a physical phenomena, fire
behavior models and predictions, and emissions. |
FOR 451 Fuels Inventory and Mapping
This courses is designed to allow students to explore the purpose and
limitations of both past and current approaches used to conduct fuels
inventory and mapping projects. Students will review field and laboratory
techniques used in fuels analysis, discuss the ecological importance of
fuels, learn to use several fuels analysis software packages, and review the
effects of forest operations on the fuels complex across scales. |
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FOR 454 Air Quality and Smoke Management
This class focuses on the assessment of the drivers of emission processes
and impacts on air quality from agricultural, prescribed and wildland fires.
Course topics include an overview of the combustion and emission processes,
the impact of emissions on air quality, the modeling and prediction
techniques used to predict emissions and other topics such as current
emissions standards, and air quality planning. |
FOR 526 Fire Ecology
This course is designed to provide an in-depth look at fire-related ecology
of plant and animal species in wildland ecosystems. We discuss current
literature to learn about research approaches. |
NR 406 GIS Applications in Fire Ecology and Management
This course introduces students to applications of GIS in fire ecology and
management. Topics included include fire incident mapping, the creation of
fire progression maps, GIS overlay analysis, fire severity assessment and
fire atlas data. |
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REM 244 Wildland Fire Management
This course provides students with an introduction to the concepts of
wildland fire management. Topics include fire behavior, fuels, fire weather,
fire prevention and suppression tactics, fire policy and fire ecology. |
