A new prescribed burn, called Debkella Piles, was initiated today at 2:58 p.m. in Trinity County, California. The prescribed ...

The Bureau of Land Management Lakeview District, in coordination with the South Central Oregon Fire Management Partnership, ...

Eric Lamb receives funding from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Mitacs, and the Nature Conservancy of Canada for research on this topic. He is affiliated with the ...

Have you ever heard the expression “fighting fire with fire?” In its most literal sense, it can describe the practice of igniting prescribed fires to prevent future wildfires. We rarely think of fire ...

Mississippi’s Prescribed Fire Council, which has been dormant for years, is up and running again in all 82 counties in order ...

Fire officials say winter’s dried vegetation creates tricky conditions for prescribed burns, emphasizing the importance of ...

Flames torched the hillside, igniting the dry chaparral at Sedgwick Reserve in California’s Santa Ynez Valley. Sagebrush and yucca caught fire like tinder as the flame front advanced, leaving charred ...

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

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 ...

Orange flames crackle and quickly burn bright green and yellow grass to blackened ash. Smoke drifts through the long-leaf pine trunks. On the edges of the fire, wildland fire experts in green cargo ...

As the growing KNP Complex fire creeps toward California’s ancient groves of sequoia trees, firefighters are hoping a delicate and specialized tool will help protect the beloved behemoths: more fire.

When wildfire burned through a federal research area in Klamath National Forest this summer, scientists were dismayed to see more than 20 years of work go up in smoke. But when they returned to the ...