A firefighter on the White Draw Fire uses a radio to coordinate with other firefighters. July 29, 2012. Photo by Bill Gabbert. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on Monday officially opened up ...
Rachel Richardson is the author of three books of poetry, Smother (W. W. Norton & Co., 2025), and Hundred-Year Wave (2016) and Copperhead (2011). Her poetry and prose have been published in The New ...
The United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday announced that the agency has invested $200 million in 58 wildfire reduction projects across the nation. The programs span 22 states and two ...
A new report out of Colorado found that homeowners in the state have the sixth-highest insurance costs in the nation, primarily in wildfire-prone areas. Costs aren’t expected to fall anytime soon.
The crash of the two on-duty contracted Cal Fire helicopters, a Sikorsky S-64E Skycrane and a Bell 407 – a derivative of a LongRanger, resulted in the deaths of Cal Fire Assistant Chief Josh Bischof, ...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fix Our Forests Act in January and has yet to have any motion in the Senate. The bill has effectively been stonewalled under both the Biden and Trump ...
The United States Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture announced the establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a consolidation of all federal wildland fire agencies ...
Republican representatives from Minnesota and Wisconsin recently sent a formal letter to Canada, demanding that the nation “deal with” its wildfires and the smoke produced by them. The letter, signed ...
Wildfires have been a natural part of Arctic ecosystems – including tundra and boreal forests – for thousands of years. As in other regions, wildfire helps to shape and maintain these ecosystems, ...