Southerners Are Rekindling a ‘Fire Culture’ to Boost Longleaf Pine Range December 18, 2023 By James Pollard WEST END, N.C. (AP) — Jesse Wimberley burns the woods with neighbors. Using new tools to revive an old communal...
New Mexico Lawmakers Seek Assurances amid Prescribed Burns March 10, 2023 By Susan Montoya Bryan ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) –New Mexico lawmakers seek assurances amid prescribed burns Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are looking for...
Pelosi: US Has to Do More to Help with Wildfire Recovery September 28, 2022 By Susan Montoya Bryan ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that the federal government has to do more to...
NM City, Victim of Government Burn, Now Faces Water Shortage August 23, 2022 By Susan Montoya Bryan And Brittany Peterson LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, buzzing chainsaws interrupt the serenity. Crews are hustling...
3 Dead in Crashes Amid Fog and Smoke on I-95 in Florida March 4, 2022 EDGEWATER, Fla. (AP) — Three people were killed in a series of crashes involving 17 vehicles early Thursday along a...
California Encourages Prescribed Burns to Counter Wildfires October 8, 2021 By Don Thompson SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is encouraging more use of fire to fight fire, such as when deliberately set burns...
Amid Clamor to Increase Prescribed Burns, Obstacles Await June 23, 2021 By Andrew Selsky SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In the 1950s, when University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns in...
As Drought Intensifies, California Seeing More Wildfires May 26, 2021 By Don Thompson SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than...
Researchers Say More Data Needed to Determine Cost-Effective Wildfire Solutions October 30, 2020 By Jim Sams and Don Jergler While California wildfires cost property insurers billions each year, the impact of the smoke emitted by those fires may be...
Easing Fires Not as Simple as Climate Change vs. Forest Work September 16, 2020 By Andrew Selsky and Adam Beam SALEM, Ore. — Deadly West Coast wildfires are dividing President Donald Trump and the states’ Democratic leaders over how to...