Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices Training
About CWMBP
Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices (Mitigation Best Practices) is listed as N9073 within the IQCS application. The course is required training for the Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Team Member (WMTM) and Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Team Lead (WMTL) positions with the USFS.
ALL courses listed below are at no cost to attend.
The next course will take place January 20, 2025, please click below to apply in order to be notified of the upcoming course start date.
Please read the course description review below before applying.
Ths national-level training from COCO and the USDS Forest Service is designed for current or future mitigation specialists, wildfire professionals, residents, and their communities to reduce wildfire risk. This training concentrates on science, methods, and tools that will help you engage communities/residents while also helping you eliminate ineffective practices.
Participants should come with a basic understanding of wildfires, how homes burn, and vegetation management practices. The course assumes you know how to mitigate, but that you could use support to engage your community. In this workshop, you will work through some of the greatest challenges facing our wildland-urban interface communities. The course will help you break down ineffective practices to make space for the more effective ones with a focus on on-the-ground mitigation activities.
The training takes place over the course of nine weeks, with three to five hours of estimated work per week. While the work is at your own pace, you are required to meet the weekly deadlines.
Selection to participate in the training will be based on your answers provided and on the submission date.
You may view a previous class syllabus HERE.
The short course is free to attend. If registering for a course held at a conference, you are not required to register for the conference to attend, BUT you MUST STILL REGISTER through the conference website. For courses not associated with a conference, your registration link will take you to a Google Form where you will be given the selection to choose which Short Course you are interested in attending.
If you attend all course days you will receive a certificate of completion for the Short Course.
If you are interested in getting the Incident Qualification and Certification System (IQCS) N9073 Training Certificate, you must complete pre-work, attend and actively participate in all days of training, and complete a Mitigation Action Plan (MAP) within two weeks of course completion. More details will be provided during the course.
Your CWMBP Contacts
Wendie grew up in the sprawling town of Mosca, Colorado, and has degrees in water quality and aviation from Salem University and Pikes Peak State College. She has almost 20 years of experience working in the field of natural resources; with much of her work focused on pre-wildfire mitigation, post-wildfire mitigation, water quality, and hydrology. She stays busy in her downtime juggling all of her many hobbies.
Katie was born and raised in Colorado and loves to explore the many different landscapes the state has to offer. She obtained her master’s degree in Conservation Leadership from Colorado State University, and she is passionate about finding solutions to the environmental problems we face in a collaborative and equitable way. She previously worked at the Center for Collaborative Conservation, based out of CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources as the Special Projects Coordinator.
Jonathan has a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Colorado and graduated from the Executive Leadership program at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Before helping to found and lead Coalitions and Collaboratives over the past decade, Jon served on the Coalition for the Upper South Platte leadership team. Jon also helped to found and is the team leader for the Community Mitigation Assistance Team (CMAT) on National Wildland Fire Assignments. He works closely with communities on forest health initiatives aimed at creating resilient forests and safer communities and works to restore lands impacted by recent wildfires and natural disasters. With over 20 years within emergency services, as a safety officer for a search and rescue team, and as a wildland firefighter, he continues to work at the intersection of emergency response and community preparedness.