Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges also know as the (WTREX) holds 12-day training sessions to help women advance their formal qualifications in wildland fire management.

The goal is to enhance understanding of fire ecology, communications, outreach, prescribed fire policy,

and planning.

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When the U.S. fire management system was conceived in the early 1900s, women’s roles in the workforce

were much different than today-women continue to constitute a relatively small proportion of the workforce,

filling roughly 10 percent of wildland fire positions and only 7 in 100 leadership roles. In recent years, there

has been an increased effort to recruit women into fire, new recruits often find the dominant fire management system to be dismissive of female perspectives and strengths, even as its increasing complexity requires fresh approaches and insights. Bottom line is these fierce women love their  job!

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