Enclosure 3

Other Education Creditable Towards 24 Semester Hours Requirement

Creditable education includes education from other than an accredited institute of higher learning that meets the requirements of the qualifications standards.  To meet the 24 semester hour requirement, the other education must be equivalent to course work in a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences, natural resources, wildland fire management, forestry, or agriculture.  Therefore, most technology type coursework will not meet this requirement.

Technical Fire Management¹ - Upper Division                                        18 semester hours

All modules must be successfully completed before the 18 semester hours is credited.

Module I/IA     Statistics/Computers & Math         

Module II         Economics                               

Module III        Fuels Management                         

Module IV       Fire Ecology and Fire Effects                     

Module V         Fire and Land Management                       

Module VI       Final Project Reviews                                

National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Courses²  -  Upper Division

FIEM               Fire in Ecosystem Management                            1 semester hour

FML                Fire Management Leadership                                           1 semester hour

FPM                Fire Program Management                                        1 semester hour

LFML              Local Fire Management Leadership                                1 semester hour

NFMAS          National Fire Management Analysis System                   1 semester hour

RX-450           Smoke Management Techniques                                         1 semester hour

RX-540           Applied Fire Effects                                                1 semester hour

RX-590           Prescribed Fire Behavior Interpretation                              2 semester hours                          (to be combined with S-590)

S-490              Advanced Wildland Fire Behavior Calculations             1 semester hour

S-491              National Fire Danger Rating System                         1 semester hour

S-492              Long Term Fire Risk Assessment                                     1 semester hour

S-493              Fire Area Growth Simulation                                            1 semester hour

S-520              Advanced Incident Management                                       2 semester hours

S-580              Advanced Fire Use Applications                                       1 semester hour

                        (National Parks & Wilderness Fire Mgmt)                    

S-590              Fire Behavior Interpretation                                       2 semester hours      S-620              Area Command                                                                    1 semester hour

National Wildlife Coordinating Group (NWCG) Courses³ - Lower Division

P-151              Wildfire Origin and Cause Determination               1 semester hour     

RX-300           Prescribed Fire for Burn Bosses                                          1 semester hour

RX-340           Introduction to Fire Effects                                                  1 semester hour

S-190/290       Introduction to Fire Behavior combined with

Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior                                  1 semester hour

S-390              Intro. to Wildland Fire Behavior Calculations                  1 semester hour

1 – Per Colorado State University

2 – Per Colorado State University/Utah State/Northern Arizona University

3 – Per University of Idaho/ Colorado State University/University of Montana