Prescribed Burn Alliance of Texas
"Taking the WILD out of Fire"
PBAT MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS AND CONTACT INFO
The Prescribed Burn Alliance of Texas is a coalition of Prescribed Burn Associations across the state.
PBAT does not accept individual members.
If you are interested in joining a local PBA, please use our Member Associations listed below to find the nearest PBA contacts in your region.
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If you want to organize a PBA in your area, learn more about prescribed burning as a land management practice or need other information, please Contact Us.
Coastal Bend
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The Coastal Bend Prescribed Burn Association is a non-profit association of Texas Coastal Bend landowners and citizens whose purpose is to promote, train, and assist members and the public in the use of prescribed burning on their properties. Members participate in the burns of other members and this reciprocation pools labor, making more burns possible, especially for smaller landowners with limited labor resources.
Our goal is to enhance and protect the natural habitat of our 12 member counties to benefit the landowners and citizens of those counties and the State of Texas.
Charles Tatton [email protected] 361-646-9111
Brett Huegele [email protected] 361-220-2520
East Texas
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The The East Texas Prescribed Burn Association (ETX PBA), established in January of 2024, is a non-profit organization focused on the application of safe and effective prescribed fire across a variety of habitat types throughout eastern Texas. The PBA provides education and outreach to members and to the public through a variety of classroom and hands-on opportunities.
Utilizing the neighbor-helping-neighbor model, the PBA assists landowners in increasing wildlife habitat and biodiversity, reducing risk of wildfire, and improving overall forest health and aesthetics across east Texas.
Kyle Carrington [email protected] 970-275-1939
Blaine Morton [email protected] 713-412-6384
Edwards Plateau
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EDWARDS PLATEAU PRESCRIBED BURNING ASSOCIATION
Butch Taylor, EPPBA president: [email protected] 325-226-3942
EPPBA has more than 200 members who represent over a million acres of rangeland. Application of prescribed fire on these rangelands improves wildlife habitat, water quality and yield, carrying capacity for domestic livestock and restores their historical diversity and productivity.
With neighbor helping neighbor, we are working together to restore the productivity and ecological stability of Edwards Plateau Rangelands.
Contact EPPBA:
Butch Taylor [email protected] 325-226-3942
Curry Campbell [email protected] 325-387-3174
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EPPBA CHAPTER MEMBERS
AND CONTACT INFO
Burnet – Lampasas Chapter
Serving Burnet and Lampasas counties.
Chapter email address: [email protected]
Dan Brady [email protected] 512-755-4660
Chuck Orr [email protected] 512-924-3078
Mike Watson [email protected] 512-786-9194
Central Basin Chapter
Central Basin PBA
PO Box 1120
Mason, TX 76856
Brian Wright [email protected] 210-414-3044 cell
Frank Brown [email protected] 907-223-1616 cell
Elizabeth Knostman [email protected]
Cinco Chapter
Cinco Chapter of EPPBA includes Crockett, Edwards, Sutton, Schleicher and Val Verde counties.
Marcy Epperson [email protected] 830-683-7198
Rick Powers [email protected]
Bonnie Lou Campbell [email protected]
Cross Timbers Chapter
Cross Timbers Chapter of EPPBA was established in 2007. Cross Timbers proudly serves Hamilton, Coryell and to a lesser extent, surrounding counties. We are neighbors helping neighbors. We are dedicated to responsibly and safely restoring our endangered native grasslands for the benefit of diverse wildlife and livestock and to reduce wildfire risk.
Bill Brooke [email protected] 512-917-3417
Chase Brooke [email protected]
Gillespie Chapter
Gillespie Prescribed Burn Association is a chapter of EPPBA. GPBA focuses on training its members and the community of Gillespie and surrounding counties on burn safety and training for executing prescribed fire.
With neighbor helping neighbor, members work together to help our members to execute prescribed fire safely to meet the objectives of brush management, restore productivity and ecological stability.
We disseminate information to members on workshops, burns, etc. as deemed appropriate.
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Allen Ersch [email protected] 830-889-2471
James (Jimmy) Brown [email protected]
Heart of Texas Chapter
The HOT Chapter of EPPBA serves mainly McCulloch county in prescribed burning. However, we accept membership from those with no active PBA in their county of residence, just to be able to share events and information.
Mark Moseley [email protected] 210-516-5038
Jeff Kaspar [email protected] 713-502-8410
Bob Davidson [email protected] 281-703-7676
Menard County Chapter
Jamie Jacoby [email protected] 325-939-0663
​Lisa Brown [email protected]
Mills County Chapter
Bruce Gillan [email protected]
Peggy Herbort [email protected]
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Mills County Chapter email address: [email protected]
Concho Valley Chapter
Post Oak Savannah
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John Koenig [email protected] 214-755-8573
Rosemary Mauermann [email protected]
South Texas
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Susan Kibbe [email protected] 361-522-5194
David Kelly [email protected] 364-474-0075
South Central Texas
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The purpose of the South Central Texas Prescribed Burn Association (SCTPBA) is to promote the common good and general welfare of the people in South Central Texas through education, training, and practice of safe prescribed burn techniques. The application of prescribed fire reduces or eliminates fuel load build-up in open spaces, reducing fire intensity and/or preventing wild or unexpected fires in and near these burned open spaces. Prescribed burning is a useful tool for reducing hazardous fuel loads, improving wildlife and livestock habitat and improving vegetation quality.
Mark Brown [email protected] 281-250-1036
Tom Grahmann [email protected] 281-389-0488
Roxanne Hernandez [email protected] 512-718-2286
Rory Johnston [email protected] 713-232-0621
Website: sctpba.org
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Southern Rolling Plains
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Our mission is to promote the art and science of prescribed burning and to restore the fire culture on the landscape of the Southern Rolling Plains of Texas by providing educational and equipment resources to members.
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Michael Tynes [email protected] 817-368-0250
Beall Carothers [email protected] 214-728-4184
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Southwest Texas
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The Southwest Texas Prescribed Burn Association was formed in 2018 to foster cooperation amongst landowners on the safe and effective implementation of prescribed burns for the purpose of land management on private land in Kinney, Medina, Uvalde, and Zavala Counties. Southwest Texas PBA provides education, support, technical expertise, leadership, and guidelines for the safe application of prescribed fire to its members. The PBA also promotes the use of prescribed fire to the general public and government agencies.
Texas Panhandle
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The mission of the Texas Panhandle Prescribed Burn Association is to provide the tools, training, education, and resources to its members to conduct prescribed burns in a safe and effective manner. This will enable the members to better manage their rangeland for the betterment of their wildlife habitat and rangeland through the use of prescribed fire.
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Andrew Bivins [email protected] 806-376-4147 x206
Dale Smith [email protected] 806-376-4147 x204
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Website: www.ranches.org/tppba.htm
Upper Llanos
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The Upper Llanos Prescribed Burn Association (ULPBA) is a proactive conservation organization based in Kimble County, Texas whose goal is to enhance the productivity of the land and provide more water to the aquifer by reducing runoff, erosion and competition from ashe juniper while simultaneously reducing wildfire fuels. We believe that prescribed range burning has historically proven to be the best and most cost-effective practice to promote this goal on a scale large enough to have a perceptible impact. ULPBA members realize that fire is both a productive and potentially dangerous tool and have agreed to seek training and guidance to make their participation in this practice safe and effective. ULPBA exists to promote and assist its membership but does not have the authority to sanction nor conduct a prescribed burn. Even though the Association has no regulatory authority, the members have agreed to adhere to established guidelines in order to demonstrate due diligence.
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Lewis Allen [email protected] 325-206-2915
Sam Jetton [email protected] 325-446-2440
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Website: www.ulpba.org
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