Private Lands Prescribed Fire Initiative

Fostering exemplary land stewardship for fire dependent ecosystems, working landscapes, and healthy forests

The Tall Timbers Private Lands Prescribed Fire Initiative has been established to deliver science-based technical guidance to private landowners in the areas of risk management, prescribed fire planning and implementation, smoke management, and burn prioritization.

Our focal area is the Longleaf Legacy Landscape of northwest Florida, southwest Georgia, and southeast Alabama where, through collaboration and planning, we will endeavor to help increase fire frequency on public and private conservation landscapes by taking advantage of the strongest existing fire culture in the nation and leveraging linkages with fire partners.

Prescribed Burn Associations (PBAs) are a new way Tall Timbers is working with landowners to help restore land with prescribed fire.  You can learn more about the Tall Timbers supported PBAs and the areas they serve here.

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Strategic Goals

  • Create a network of landowners dedicated to increasing the use of safe, efficient, and ecologically sound prescribed fire across the Longleaf Legacy Landscape
  • Develop a collaborative Burn Team to assist private landowners with prescribed fire planning, implementation, and evaluation, while increasing the use of prescribed fire as a land management strategy on the Longleaf Legacy Landscape
  • Provide private landowners with high quality prescribed fire training and education based on best available science and technology

Prescribed Fire Services

  • • Landowner Consultation
  • • Prescribed Fire Planning
  • • Prescribed Fire Implementation
  • • Landowner Training and Workshops

"All services are offered at no cost to the landowner. For questions or to schedule an appointment, please contact John McGuire, Private Lands Prescribed Fire Initiative Director at jmcguire@talltimbers.org.

Support our Efforts!

Prescribed fire is not an inexpensive endeavor; in order to continue offering our services free of charge, our work requires the support of conservation minded individuals, groups and other partners. Funding may come from direct donations, fund raising events, and grants.



Please consider supporting our work through direct donations and/or conducting or assisting with a fundraising event. Contact John McGuire, Private Lands Prescribed Fire Initiative Director, at jmcguire@talltimbers.org.