Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Garnet Fire killed the vast majority of trees in California's Teakettle Experimental Forest. (Malcolm North) Lightning-sparked ...

Most of the West’s perennial wildfire plague is due to human stupidity. But it’s not just the careless people who start the fires. Given the primary risk factor for massive forest fires is hotter, ...

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Prescribed burn projects undertaken by firefighting agencies throughout La Plata County are often heralded as one of the most ...

Springtime prescribed burns on the Deschutes National Forest are planned in the coming weeks, prompting an advisory for the U.S. Forest Service for smoke impacts. Around 7,000 acres are planned to be ...

SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- After a favorable test burn, Sisters Ranger District firefighters on Friday were conducting up to 20 acres of prescribed burning 3 1/2 miles southeast of Sisters, just east of ...

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley spoke with KTVZ News Wednesday about efforts to improve forest management, through more thinning and prescribed burns, to reduce the intensity of major ...

Multiple prescribed fires are planned for Friday, March 20, across North Carolina forests, including one in our area. On Friday morning, U.S. Forest Service said that they would be conducting ...

Lightning-sparked flames raced through a roughly 3,000-acre tract of old-growth forest in the central Sierra Nevada during the Garnet Fire in September. Before this year, the Teakettle Experimental ...