Gregory Vigneaux is a speaker, author, researcher, consultant, and wildland firefighter coach.

Bequi Livingston was the first woman recruited by the New Mexico-based Smokey Bear Hotshots for its elite wildland firefighting crew. She was the Regional Fire Operations Health and Safety Specialist for the U.S. Forest Service in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Livingston is now a certified trauma specialist, trauma sensitive yoga teacher, integrative health coach and personal fitness trainer. Her business, BodySense Wellness, focuses on paying it forward to help wildland firefighters and first responders heal and deal with their traumatic stress.

As of 31 May 2025, the FireUp job board hosted 263 fire and forestry employers across ten industry types, with 1,615+ active job postings. In the past month, the job board received 2,532 unique visitors and 492 job clicks. The most job clicks were received on postings from the State of California (CAL FIRE), the Association for Fire Ecology, Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Old Growth Tree Service, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, State of Washington, Gridware, Western Fire Chiefs Association, Megafire Action, The Nature Conservancy, and Miller Timber, State of Washington, PG&E, Muon Space, Blue Forest, among others.

As of 27 April 2025, the FireUp job board hosts 264 fire and forestry employers across ten industry types, with 1,972+ active job postings. In the past month, federal agencies are back online, adding 300+ relevant roles to our job board. At 768 open positions, private companies still contribute the bulk of roles available on the FireUp job board, followed by nonprofits (329 jobs), state agencies (298 jobs), universities (162 jobs), and FireTech startups (76), among others.

As of 28 March 2025, the FireUp job board hosts 263 fire and forestry employers across ten industry types, with 2,332+ active job postings. In the past month, private companies have added 385 roles, making up the bulk of our new jobs. Private companies lead the job boards with 1221 jobs, followed by state agencies (347 jobs) and nonprofits (293 jobs).

Wellness has become a ‘buzzword’ in today’s society, which can make it confusing, especially in our fire and forestry world.  Here, we take a common-sense approach to what wellness means in simple terms.  

As of 28 February 2025, the FireUp job board hosts 263 fire and forestry employers across ten industry types, with 2,069+ active job postings. In February, state agencies added 214 jobs, while federal agencies removed 217 jobs, following the federal government funding freeze and mass layoffs. Read on for more on job and talent trends in our network.

In February, funding and hiring freezes, and mass layoffs, affected all fire and forestry related agencies as the Trump-Vance administration brings “workforce optimization” to the federal government’s functioning. Paradoxically, these Executive Orders come on the heels of one of America’s costliest disasters in modern history–the devastating LA County fires. It is clear that ongoing trends in wildfire impacts necessitate an expanded, cross-trained, and year-round fire and forestry workforce across all levels of partnership.