Putting good fire on the Mt. Adams landscape through cross-boundary collaboration, education, and advocacy
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Good Fire
Forests in the South Mt. Adams region evolved with fire. We’re bringing it back — for ecosystem health, community wildfire protection, wildlife habitat, and more.
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A Coalition
The Mt. Adams PBA is a grassroots effort of neighbors helping neighbors safely use prescribed fire. We share time, equipment, knowledge, and skills.
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Learning & Burning
Whether you’re thinking about burning your own property or are just curious about prescribed fire, we invite you to join a PBA burn, training, or meeting.
Burns we’ve assisted so far…
The Pacific Northwest faces an ongoing crisis of catastrophic wildfires, coupled with ecosystem degradation at landscape scales. Prescribed fire is one of the most effective, cost-efficient methods for us to address these issues. Yet, in recent decades, prescribed burning in this region has largely been limited to state and federal agencies.
The Mt. Adams PBA was established with the understanding that prescribed fire is needed as a restoration tool across lands of all ownerships, and that support for burning on private lands is severely lacking in Washington. The PBA serves as a one-stop shop to help connect private land managers in the south Mt. Adams region with what they need to plan and implement a prescribed burn.
Located elsewhere in Washington? Check out wapba.org to learn about other PBA efforts in the state.
All lands, all hands
Restoring resilience
The Mt. Adams PBA hosted Dr. Paul Hessburg, Research Ecologist with the US Forest Service, for a guest lecture in August 2024 in Husum, WA. Watch the recording to learn about how fire has shaped Western landscapes, and what is needed to regain resiliency in vulnerable and unhealthy forests.