The WSU School of the Environment announced the release of a new course for the fall 2021 semester called SOE 492: wildland fire ecology and management. Mark Swanson, associate professor in WSU’s School of the Environment, will teach the course. He said his graduate student, Timothy Fitzgibbons, and undergraduate teaching assistant Trenton Baribault, will assist him. The course will be shaped around the hybrid learning method, with lectures composed in person and on Zoom. In October, students will participate in a field day with the Pullman Fire Department, Swanson said. “Students are going to take a number of online courses that are provided by the federal government,” he said. “Then, we will meet weekly to discuss the content and to tie it back into our curriculum.”