Mission

      The Columbia Breaks Fire Interpretive Center (CBFIC) will provide a variety of quality learning experiences, interpretation, and research opportunities through active and dynamic exhibits, field trips, talks and lectures, demonstrations, and interaction with interpreters, researchers, curators, and fire managers. The Center will examine and explain the role of fire in ecology and natural processes with particular emphasis on the Pacific Northwest, and will showcase past, present, and future interactions of people with the world of fire.

Imagine . . . a wisp of white smoke in the summer woods grows to a black puff. A small spot of flame creeps through the needles and grass, then suddenly leaps to the low-hanging branches of a young pine. Soon a fire is raging through the forest . . . Like fire, an idea begins as a spark in a creative mind. As it is shared, the idea is fanned and nurtured by enthusiasm. With adequate fuel - or support - it continues to grow until it flares into reality.