Wildfires have become a defining crisis of the modern West, obliterating forests, homes, and communities while choking skies ...

The Northwest Forest Plan, adopted in 1994, helped quell mounting tensions between timber companies and environmentalists. It ...

On June 15, the Daily Inter Lake had an editorial titled "New fire division a bold step toward smoke-free summers." It seemed supportive of a new proposal to enhance federal forest fire protection and ...

Neither the House nor the Senate included funding for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service in new spending bills. The Interior ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture have announced the coordinated action to implement President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 14308, Empowering ...

A new nationwide database developed by researchers at Northern Arizona University is helping land managers answer a long-standing question: Are fuel treatments actually reducing wildfire risk? Healthy ...

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Devastating wildfires have raged through parts of the West in the US. Barbara Munker/dpa In the US, wildfires are burning through ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO) is hosting two free webinars on wildfire-resistant building. The webinars will introduce a new resource called Building ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- On Monday, President Donald Trump and California Governor Gavin Newsom both talked about fire management going forward. More than 3.2 million acres have burned this year in ...

Surfrider Foundation, Pacific Fire Exchange, and Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization, have released Re-planting After Fire: A Fire-Resilient Landscape Guide for Lahaina & West Maui — a new, free ...

Earlier this summer, the Banana Lake Fire erupted near Plains, Montana, engulfing over 850 acres in flames within a day. The “total suppression” response from firefighting officials included deploying ...