Preparing Communities for Wildfire Resilience
January 31 @ 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm MST
Preparing Communities for Wildfire Resilience
Friday, January 31, 2025
4:30–7:30 p.m.
Free Event
Join the Greater Yellowstone Fire Action Network (GYFAN), in partnership with our Draper Natural History Museum and Shoshone National Forest, for this free event, Preparing Communities for Wildfire Resilience, on Friday, January 31 starting at 4:30 p.m.
Everyone has a role to play in preparing for a fire event. When a community works together and becomes what we refer to as a fire adapted community “FAC,” collectively we can be more prepared to adapt to wildfire. Come meet members of the Greater Yellowstone Fire Action Network and learn ways you can help promote fire on the landscape as an ecosystem restoration tool.
• 4:30 p.m. – Explore a fire truck! A Forest Service fire truck will be parked at the front entrance to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West from 4:30–7:30 p.m.
• 5 p.m. – Enjoy a screening of the film The Fire Problem in our Coe Auditorium. The film is a great historical account of fire in the West. Following the film, GYFAN members and Shoshone National Forest fire staff will take questions and listen to perspectives on all things wildfire.
• 6 p.m. – Smokey Bear joins us for a 30-minute open house after the film screening!
The Greater Yellowstone Fire Action Network (GYFAN) formed to address challenges communities and the landscape face with wildfire. Our network members and partners aim for a cultural shift in how we view and respond to fire. This shift can help save lives, properties and help keep the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem thriving.
From home hardening and fire’s role on the landscape, to being smoke ready or even a volunteer neighborhood fire and smoke ambassador, we will be engaging with you about all things wildland fire. We are stewards of the forests. There are risks—and benefits—to wildfire. Let’s all work together to live with wildfire.
The goal of our network is to promote fire adapted communities across the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem and support a fire resilient landscape. Our network shares resources and knowledge across three states to mitigate fire on the ground and connect communities, mitigation practitioners, and fire agencies. This networking aims to increase knowledge sharing, capacity and the social capital needed to increase the pace and scale of fuels reduction work within and around communities at risk to wildfire. It also aims to promote fire on the landscape as an ecosystem restoration tool.
We must all be prepared to LIVE with wildfire and smoke. If a wildfire is burning, it does not always mean destruction and devastation. It can often mean new life. The 1988 Yellowstone fire taught us that.
It’s not IF a wildfire is going to happen, it’s WHEN. Are you ready?
