The decision authorizes a significant expansion of prescribed fire operations. For example, the Sierra National Forest, which ...

As wildfires get more intense, there are questions about how effective prescribed fire and other fuel treatments can be. New research suggests that they can still have real impacts.

A new prescribed burn, called Mcbride Landing Piles, was initiated 5:05 p.m. Nov. 17 in Siskiyou County, California. The prescribed fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States ...

L.A. and San Bernardino county foothill communities may soon see smoke from a controlled fire in the Angeles National Forest, officials said. Firefighters are waiting for the right conditions to ...

A new prescribed burn, named Mh South, was initiated today at 8:01 a.m. in Plumas County, California. The prescribed fire has ...

Community members, agency staffers, landowners and researchers tend a prescribed burn in Placerville, California in February 2022. (Tim McConville/UC Davis) Prescribed fire, which mimics natural fire ...

Experts on prescribed fires are lauding the progress state policymakers have made to accelerate the practice on private lands. While this puts California on equal footing with other Western states, ...

At 10:30 a.m. on Monday, April 14, helicopter blades began slicing through the air on a grassy field above houses that overlooked Aspen Mountain. The blades beat faster and faster until the helicopter ...

Wildfire season is over, but the weather is right for putting fire to work in preparation for the next one. A warm October and terrible mid-month air quality thanks to wildfires, like the Cedar Creek ...

We know home fire insurance policies have gotten more expensive and harder to obtain — especially in areas of the Western United States that are prone to wildfires. But there are other groups that ...

Officials with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) will work with local officials in a number of ...

Every year, land managers intentionally set millions of acres on fire across the United States. Last month, one of those prescribed fires in Eastern Oregon’s Grant County had the rare distinction of ...