2025 Canadian Prairies TREX Overview

What goes into planning a week-long TREX for 60 participants? How do we choose which sites to burn? How do shifting weather conditions shape each day on the fire line?

In this new episode of Prairie Fire Lines, we unpack these questions and more through a reflection on the 2025 Canadian Prairies TREX, held in Saskatoon from October 20–24, 2025.

Cat brings together TREX Incident Commander Renny Grilz, Planning Chief Roy Vera-Velez, Operations Chief Kerry Hecker, and trainers Brad Elder, Melanie Schmidt, and Ryan Schmidt for a deep-dive Zoom conversation about how TREX unfolded - from early planning to the final day of burning.

Tune in for an inside look at what it takes to organize a prescribed fire training exchange in the heart of our prairie grasslands.