Burn Trailers (under construction, but functional; both this webpage and the trailers)
Exterior of prescribed burn trailer while being built.
We support landowners with equipment to implement more and better prescribed fire.
Minnesota Pheasants Forever provides fully-equipped prescribed burn trailers to private landowners seeking to implement prescribed fire on their lands. The overall goal of this project is to increase the safe and effective use of prescribed fire on the Minnesota landscape and support the creation of Prescribed Burn Associations across the state.
Interior of burn trailer, with equipment to conduct a modest-sized burn.
What's inside
Each trailer contains equipment to conduct a modest-sized burn and enough personal protective equipment to outfit 12 personnel. Some of the key equipment includes:
- 2 gas-powered, 65-gallon pump units sized to fit in a side-by-side utility vehicles (UTV)
- 2 electric, 26-gallon pump units for mounting on all-terrain vehicles (ATV)
- 4 backpack water pumps
- 6 drip torches with fuel extra fuel cans
- Various fire hand tools
- 12 two-way radios with chest harnesses
- Nomex shirts
- Gloves
- Helmets
Checkout Agreement
The use of these burn trailers is a partnership between private landowners and Pheasants Forever. Each landowner that utilizes a trailer or any of the contained equipment to burn on their property must complete an equipment checkout agreement. This agreement sets the terms for a landowner to borrow this equipment from Pheasants Forever for their burn.
The agreement can be completed online using the button below. A copy of the agreement is available to view or download for your records.
Usage Fee
To help cover ongoing costs, Minnesota Pheasants Forever asks landowners to pay a $75 usage fee for each burn in which a trailer or the contained equipment is used. These funds go towards trailer and equipment maintenance, equipment additions, and property insurance for Pheasants Forever to own the trailers.
Coming soon: A way to pay the usage fee online. For now, hold on to your money.
Activity Report
We collect information on how the trailers are used so we can get more of them.
If you have completed a burn using equipment from a trailer, Pheasants Forever asks that an use report be completed. This is a simple form that can be completed online using the button below. This information is collected, anonymized, and used to apply for funding to purchase additional fire equipment, or to fund future prescribed fire projects.
Resources
Coming eventually: Links to PDF documents including trailer inventory sheets, posters, user manuals, and other stuff like that.
