Featured Events

 

MPFC Quarterly Meetings

2025 Quarterly Meeting Schedule

2nd Wednesdays 11am-1pm Hybrid

March 12 - (SW MI) Grand Valley State University

June 11 - (SE MI) Indian Spring MetroPark

Sept 10 - (Upper Peninsula) TBD

Dec 10 - (N Lower) Hartwick Pines

Save the Date for the Annual Meeting and Burning Issues Workshop!

Feb 10 & 11, 2026 - Fort Custer Training Center, Augusta, MI

Trainings

Training opportunities are offered virtually and in-person by a variety of organizations including NWCG, Tall Timbers, MI DNR, and collaborative efforts by NGOs and non-profit organizations.

We will post opportunities on our calendar and via email and social media as we hear about them.

  • Planning underway for a Northern Lower MI event in 2026

  • MI DNR program to launch within the next few years

Public Events

  • April 12, 2025 - Land Conservancy of West Michigan Saul Lake Bog Nature Preserve

  • March 2025 - “Prescribed Fire, a Friend to Water - A Discussion of Michigan’s forests, prescribed fire, and water quality” Series of public social education events around SW MI

  • Fueling Collaboration Panel Series

SUBMIT EVENT OR TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

"An interagency firefighting team aided by a fire drone conducted a highly successful prescribed burn in central Wisconsin on Department of Defense land, April 11. ...Traditionally, there are two main methods for prescribed burns, hand ignition
The FIRST NE-MW Regional Prescribed Fire Science and Management Workshop will be held in Madison, Wisconsin at The Madison Concourse hotel on August 29 – 31, 2023. Sponsored by the Northeast Regional Strategy Committee (NE RSC), a regional org
"The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), established in April 2002 by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to provide an intergovernmental committee to support the implementation and coordination of Federal Fire Management Policy
"Tribal officials from three Chippewa Bands signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Forest Service this week to provide for co-stewardship and protection of “treaty-reserved rights under the 1854 Treaty” across the m
Large burn sites in forested areas are ideal for morel mushroom hunting, especially in burned areas where jack, white or red pine once grew. Grassy and other non forest areas are not as likely to produce morels. The MI DNR have put together a map of