WASHINGTON, D.C.—It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the “Wildland Fire Metareview, 2007-2016” was released. Since then, the Innovation and Organizational Learning staff has hosted nine webinars exploring the “Big 8” chapters, and each month we’ve been humbled by participants who provided thoughtful contributions and an overwhelming desire to make the wildland fire system just a little bit better. We’ve also heard from many of you about how you used the metareview to have conversations on your home unit about concerns in the wildland fire system and learn your way through them together.

If you used the metareview, please take a few minutes to complete this three-question form to tell us about your experience. And, with your permission, we’d like to share those experiences with others during future webinars. You just might inspire them to take advantage of this resource. And when you provide your feedback, you help us improve our service to you in the future.  

As we move through the season of reflection, we will be pausing our monthly engagements. We’ll be starting our monthly webinars up again in the early spring, and we hope to see you then. If you'd like to know when webinars are scheduled, sign up on our mailing list.

In the meantime, we encourage you to share the metareview with others—there’s an audiobook version, too—share the webinars and continue your exploration of the learning dialogues and opportunities.

Here at Innovation and Organizational Learning we often say, “Reports don’t change anything…people do.” We set out to create something more than just another report, something that would effect substantive change when people used it, and the IOL team thanks YOU for making that a reality. No matter how you came to participate with the metareview, we are glad you did, and we hope you found the metareview and our webinars useful.

Please feel free to reach out and chat during our webinar break by emailing SM.FS.OL_RMRS@usda.gov. Thanks, and we hope you have a great winter full of recovery, reflection and learning.

You can watch previous webinars here.