Membership Options

Strengthen prescribed fire in Wisconsin!

Add your voice to others from the Wisconsin prescribed fire community and support the mission of the Council. Join the Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council!

Your membership in the Fire Council helps us expand our community and create a unified, credible voice that represents the entire spectrum of prescribed burners in Wisconsin.  Your participation helps us to advocate on behalf of prescribed fire throughout the state and to provide training, workshops, networking opportunities and educational resources to the prescribed fire community.

Our members are passionate about advancing prescribed fire in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Members are from government, for-profit and non-profit organizations; landowners, universities and more. We range widely in perspectives and experience levels, which makes for good discussion and dynamic events. We encourage everyone who shares our enthusiasm to join us in making prescribed fire in Wisconsin safer, more effective and more accepted for all practitioners.

Members are eligible to vote for and serve on the Board of Directors, and receive early notification and discounted registration for training, workshops, and conferences. Memberships expire at the end of the year (December 31st). Any memberships starting after September 30th will expire the following year. Please see the specifics below.

Membership Options

STUDENT

$20 / Four Years
Student
Members:
  • are eligible to vote for and serve on the Board of Directors
  • are eligible to serve on council committees 
  • receive early notification of training, workshops, conferences, etc.
  • receive one discounted registration per year for Fire Council events

INDIVIDUAL

$20 / Year
Individual
Members:
  • are eligible to vote for and serve on the Board of Directors
  • are eligible to serve on council committees 
  • receive early notification of training, workshops, conferences, etc.
  • receive one discounted registration per year for Fire Council events

LIFETIME

$250 (one time)
Lifetime
Members:
  • are eligible to vote for and serve on the Board of Directors
  • are eligible to serve on council committees \
  • receive early notification of training, workshops, conferences, etc.
  • receive two discounted registrations per year for Fire Council events

ORGANIZATION

$100 / Year
Organization
Members:
  • can have their logo, a link and a descriptive paragraph posted on the prescribedfire.org website contractor page
  • first access to interested clients 
  • receive early notification of training, workshops, conferences, etc.
  • receive three discounted registrations per year for Fire Council events
  • can name one representative to the Council’s Advisory Board
  • cannot vote or serve on the Board of Directors, but their employees or affiliated personnel are eligible for those privileges by joining as Individual members

SUPPORTING

$250 / Year
Supporting
Members:
  • get a prominent acknowledgement on the prescribedfire.org website
  • first access to interested clients 
  • receive early notification of training, workshops, conferences, etc.
  • receive five discounted registrations for Fire Council events per year
  • can designate one individual to be eligible to vote for and serve on the Board of Directors

NOTES


  • Organizations, businesses and agencies can join as Organizational members
  • Individual and Organizational memberships expire on December 31 of each year
  • Memberships started after September 30 run through December 31 of the following year
  • Student memberships expire four years after the original signup date