Wednesday, December 03, 2025
Webinar Time
10:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Wildfire Evacuation Challenges and How Research-Based Tools Can Help
Fires in wildland-urban interfaces (WUI) are associated with severe negative consequences, such as large community evacuation, property losses, social disruption, short- and long-term damage to infrastructure, injuries, and evacuee and responder fatalities.
Wildland fires represent an important safety issue in many regions of the world. The future expansion and increased complexity of WUI pose severe challenges to community safety from an evacuation perspective. Therefore, WUI incidents are likely to become more severe and affect more people.
Who will benefit from attending this webinar?
Fire service personnel
Emergency management and planning professionals
Urban planners and land-use planners
Researchers and academics in fire science and engineering
Public policy makers and regulators
Other professionals tasked with keeping communities safer from wildfire
This webinar will provide an overview of challenges relating to evacuation of communities in the WUI and how modeling tools can help with evacuation planning. The webinar will highlight a research-based tool that has been developed with a global team under the Fire Protection Research Foundation called WUI-NITY, which is an open-source integrated software platform for the simulation of WUI evacuation scenarios.
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"Aldo Leopold & the Land Ethic: The Archival Resources to Dig Deeper into A Sand County Almanac" with Buddy Huffaker
Join us December 4, 2025 from 1-2 pm ET
While Aldo Leopold’s impact on the conservation movement is broad and deep, he is best known as the author of the now classic book A Sand County Almanac. Translated into sixteen languages, it is one of the foundational texts for those around the world who care about people and places. But becoming a classic doesn’t happen overnight; it requires great writing, and often a few twists of fate. Buddy will introduce Leopold’s writing and publishing journey as well as the online archival resources at the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere available to do your own deep dive into the making of an American classic.
Buddy Huffaker has served as Executive Director at the Aldo Leopold Foundation since 1999. During his tenure, the foundation has grown the Leopold Community by protecting the Leopold Shack & Farm (the inspiration and setting for much of A Sand County Almanac) as a National Historic Landmark, constructing the LEED Platinum Aldo Leopold Legacy Center out of trees planted by the Leopold family, producing the Emmy Award–winning documentary GreenFire, and supporting ten different foreign translations of A Sand County Almanac. The foundation continues the Leopold family’s commitment to stewardship through the restoration and management of the 4,400-acre Leopold-Pines Conservation Area and by using this experience to inform and inspire other landowners to adopt and implement their own land ethic.
This presentation is approved for 1.0 hours of CFE credit by the Society of American Foresters!
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From MPCTC- If interested please submit an out of service request. If approved Sarah Gray will sign you up
1-day professional development seminars. These programs are hosted by MPCTC in partnership with the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) at the Public Safety Education & Training Center (PSETC) in Sykesville. The courses each run 8:30am-4:00pm and are approved for 6 hours of in-service credits. Topics and dates are listed below; the full list of 1-day seminars plus other leadership training is available on the Leadership Development Institute website. Training coordinators can login to the Online Registration System to register.
Stress Management: The Attitude Day Spa
January 8th, 2026
In this course, you will learn how to identify and understand your best emotional response to stress, how to better communicate under stress, make better decisions, and reduce burn-out in even the most challenging positions.
Dealing with Difficult Employees
January 15, 2026
This course is designed to identify habitual actions in the workplace that make it difficult for others to accomplish their work in a peaceful, timely fashion. Actions to prevent or manage difficult situations will be explored and techniques will be practiced.
Managing Across Generations
January 21, 2026
This course is designed to explore the needs of the multi-generational workforce, with a focus on differences between generations to improve understanding and workplace productivity. Topics include: workplace attitudes and expectations, generational values, power structures and hierarchy, and managing multiple generations in the workplace.
Candid Conversations about Race
February 12, 2026
This course is designed to allow the participants, who are law enforcement and public safety professionals, to learn about and become more aware of the complexities involved in conversations surrounding race and culture. Topics to be covered include culture and cultural script, data and trends in America, race in America, terminology, privilege, anti-racism, and courageous conversations.
Managing Organizational Change
February 19, 2026
This course is designed to provide public safety managers and supervisors with the tools to manage planned change in their teams and organizations. Participants will examine techniques to produce behavior that enables change, and strategies and models for dealing with resistance to change. This course stresses the role of communication in managing orderly change. Topics to be covered include Three-Phase Transition Model of Change, leadership tasks and responsibilities, change communication strategies, identifying and managing resistance to change, and change implementation tools.
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Temporary Traffic Control Manager Certification - Government
Temporary Traffic Control Manager Certification (Orange Card)
This is to be an instructor. If you are interested you must submit an out of service form and be willing to instruct 1-2 classes a year.
This one-day, 8-hour course is designed for field supervisors providing Temporary Traffic Control Manager (TTCM) training for work zones. Individuals will be provided an online course manual with instructional material and learn the fundamentals of temporary traffic control, SHA’s Standards and Specifications, and typical applications. Individuals will then complete a multiple-choice online examination at the end of the course.
Training modules & the exam are inside the online course.
Each person registered must have an email address unique to them. You can not use an office email/administrative assistant's email to register multiple people.
After registration, the course information will be made available within 2 business days. The course can then be accessed at will, day or night.
Training is not available on an iPad, phone, or other handheld device, it must be done on a laptop or desktop computer.
The Google Chrome browser must be used to access the training.
The course, on average, takes 4-6 hours and can be completed online any time day or night.
The exam has a time limit of two hours, which must be completed without interruption.
You have two attempts to pass the exam.
Successful completion requires a 70% or higher score on the final exam.
If both exam attempts are failed the individual may register and pay the fee to take the course again.
Certification is valid for 4 years from the time the exam is successfully completed.
Registration for the certification course is valid for 6 months. If the course is not completed during that time the registration is forfeited and expired.
Contact MTBMA at training@mtbma.org with questions about the Temporary Traffic Control Managers Course.
Price: $65
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