Firefighters from around the world visit Apalachicola National forest

The Apalachicola National Forest recently hosted an international group of fire management officers from Australia and New to share techniques and strategies in the use of prescribed fire.

The group of six Australians and three New Zealanders also visited national forests in California, Northern Idaho and Montana.

Fire managers from the National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center in Florida hosted the international guests.

The center includes fire professionals from several agencies including the U.S. Forest Service.

The Florida visit focused on prescribed fire sites, interagency cooperation, aerial fire tools, habitat restoration and wildland-urban interface mitigation measures that are used on the Apalachicola Bluffs Preserve, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, and the Apalachicola National Forest.

The study tour was part of an exchange program between Australia, New Zealand, Canada and fire professionals from the United States which started in1968. 

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