When two major wildfires burned through the Sierra Nevada in 2020 and 2021, they took thousands of giant sequoia trees with ...
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 ...
Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally set, controlled fires—can significantly lessen their impact. By analyzing ...
There’s been an increased interest over the past few years in how prescribed burning can decrease risks of forest fires and help with conservation efforts. The Register-Guard talked with an expert to ...
Prescribed fire, which mimics natural fire regimes, can help improve forest health and reduce the likelihood of catastrophic wildfire. But this management tool is underused in the fire-prone U.S. West ...
A top strategy for preventing catastrophic wildfires is periodically burning forests under controlled conditions. The U.S. Forest Service conducted more "prescribed" fires than ever this year. The U.S ...
After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...
MISSOURI, USA — Father Louis Vivier encountered a world on fire when he first stepped foot in the Midwest. The French Jesuit was one of the first Europeans to describe Missouri's landscape. His 1750 ...
December 4, 2023 — Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Mongabay and is republished here with permission. Click here for highlights from the story. Prescribed fires are a positive land ...
Fighting woody plant encroachment with prescribed burns may be more effective than land managers previously thought. A study by Bill Rogers, Ph.D., professor in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture ...
In late May, on a crisp and partly cloudy morning, I joined my first prescribed burn, led by Fire Forward, to learn about ...
Indiana joined 22 other states in 2025 when it launched its state-level Certified Prescribed Burn Manager (CPBM) Program. This program resulted from HB-1557, which went into effect on July 1, 2025.
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