Adam Mendonca, deputy fire director with the U.S. Forest Service, explains why prescribed fires, also known as controlled ...

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

In regions where fire is a natural phenomenon, organisms have adapted to cope with periodic fires. Terrestrial mammals and ...

The House on Thursday passed legislation that supporters say will improve how the nation manages its forests to prevent fires ...

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Cheatgrass was brought into the US in the 1880s and made its way into every county in Idaho by the 1980s. Once it dries up in ...

Ahead of the summer season, Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre has directed forest officials to be alert to prevent forest ...

H.R. 471, the “Fix Our Forests Act,” passed 279-141, with 64 Democrats — including some progressives — voting in favor of the ...

Cal Fire’s total base wildfire protection budget has nearly tripled over the past 10 years, from $1.1 billion in 2014‑15 to ...

You can’t even call the LA fires a warning shot. Rather, they are merely the latest episode in a rapidly unfolding story.

Some Republican leaders insist that before California can get disaster aid, there will be conditions attached.

Forest fires have traditionally been classified as ... In pre-settlement times, fires whooshed through forests frequently enough to prevent heavy buildup of ground litter. Without firefighters ...