>>2442721Depends where you are. I was a natural resource conservation student in Wisconsin when I started doing prescribed burns. The school had some property it owned that we burned to get a good look at fire behavior, and also worked with private land owners who were interested in habitat management/rehabilitation. You can get involved with wildland fire pretty much anywhere in the US, but there is a much bigger demand for it out West since their fire seasons can be pretty busy. Look around and see if you can find a place/time to take the Wildland Fire Intro (S130, S190, L180,) under the NWCG, it'll give you the basic qualification you'll need if you wanna work with any serious agency. Feds will want you to take a couple FEMA courses too, I-100 and I-700. Almost everyone will want you to have First Aid/CPR training. Depending who you work for they might put you through some (or all) of the class themselves, just ask them.
You can go federal and work for the USFS/BLM but I did more suppression rather than prescribed burns when I was with them, but they still do it to manage fuel loading in forests and such. Whereas USFWS will do a lot more prescribed burning, especially out East in the off-season from what I hear. You can also go state and see if your state's Dept. of Natural Resources has a fire management/burn program and if they have any openings, but it's more competitive than federal I think. There's private contractors too but I have no idea what their requirements are and people kinda hate them, uuuhhh The Nature Conservancy also has a burn program going on, and so do some other groups like Pheasants Forever and Ducks Unlimited
Don't know anything about Aus, and Euros seem to really hate the idea of prescribed burns or burning to fight wildfires
