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Alabama Certified Burn Manager 2008 Training

Certified burn manager certification courses and re-certification workshops will be held across the state in FY 2008. 

Alabama Certified Burn Manager Certification Courses

All courses are 4 day - 30 contact hours. All courses begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. daily. On the first day students should arrive by 7:30 a.m. to check in.

Students must pre-register for courses (except the April 16-17 session) by sending a $50 registration fee to Alabama Certified Burn Manager Certification Course (check made payable to AL CBM Course), c/o Kent Hanby, 431 Dogwood Trail, Dadeville, AL 36853. Registration for the April 16-17 course will be handled by the Alabama Wildland Fire Academy.

Required pre-study: All students are expected to review the material at www.pfmt.org/fire in the history, science, and behavior sections. There will be a pre-study test on the first day of the course.

March 18-21, 2008 Alexander City, Charles E. Bailey Sportsplex, Old Senior Citizens Cabin, 1685 Area Road, Alexander City, AL, 35011

From US 280 in Alexander City turn west on Elkahatchee Road (land mark- Russell Outlet Store), go a couple hundred yards west and turn right onto Sportsplex Road (land mark-Sportsplex Monument in road), go approximately one quarter mile and take first left onto Arena Road, the Old Senior Citizens Cabin is on the right.

April 16-19, 2008 Alabama Wildland Fire Academy, Fort McClellan in Anniston.

Registration and schedule details will be available at the AFC web site, http://www.forestry.state.al.us/default.htm
May 13–16, 2008 Coastal Plain ACES, Wilcox CO., 1192 County Road 14, Camden, AL 36726

(Ellis Landing Road), about 2 miles north of Camden on Highway 28. (Days Inn and Southern Inn in Camden)
October 7-10, 2008 Fayette County Alabama Cooperative Extension System Office, 650 McConnell Loop, Fayette, AL 35555

East off of US Highway 43 North

Special Landowner Support Under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

If a forest landowner has signed up for NRCS prescribed burning support and is willing to receive training to become a Certified Burn Manager the landowner may be eligible to "sign up" to receive a one-time payment of $375 upon providing proof of certification. This is a grant to cover registration, transportation and lodging during the course. Detailed information may be obtained from county NRCS offices.

Alabama Certified Burn Manager Continuing Education Workshops

All workshops are 1 day - 6 contact hours, designed to satisfy the Alabama Certified Burn Manager continuing education requirement for re-certification; 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

September 3, 2008, Alabama Power Company Conference Center (tentative), US 31 South, Clanton, Alabama ( 1 mile North of I-65 on east side)
September 10, 2008 LBW Community College Conference Room, Hwy 84 East, Andalusia, AL 36420-1418

Sponsors

  • Alabama Forestry Commission (USFS National Fire Plan Funds)
  • USDA-NRCS (EQIP Funds)
  • Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Contact

Kent Hanby

e-mail: hanby@charter.net 
Phone: 256-825-8593

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