Dave Lasky

Dave Lasky is the director of Fire Management for the Forest Stewards Guild and the module lead for the Gravitas Peak Wildland Fire Module, and he has spent 20 years in fire management. He has worked as a suppression firefighter with extensive experience in Colorado’s Front Range and its recent history of catastrophic fires in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). Mr. Lasky has had a diverse career, from running Daylight Again Restoration Forestry, which used draft horses as the motive power source, to many years as an engine boss, and serving on Type 2 and 3 Incident Management Teams. He spent thre years as the lead for the Four Mile Fire Crew, working with landowners and state and federal partners to build fire resilient communities. A qualified burn boss and incident commander, Mr. Lasky now focuses on workforce development and social justice issues to increase the pace and scale of prescribed fire implementation.