Today, Jan. 5, weather permitting, CalFire plans to conduct “a fire fuels management project” along the Kings Mountain Road ...

Wildfire Adapted and the San Juan Headwaters group presented a draft of the new CWPP to the Archuleta Board of County ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A lot of time, money and attention has been spent for years on helping homeowners and communities create “defensible space” around their properties, so a wildfire doesn’t have as ...

Technology is furthering innovation in wildland firefighting across the west, including the Tahoe Basin — and not just in the process of extinguishing flames but in prevention of these catastrophic ...

For tens of thousands of years, nature had its own way of managing fuel load. Those are the wildfires of the past, low-burning fires that cleared forests and rangelands of the grasses and undergrowth ...

Recent wildfires are larger and more intense than they've ever been in the historical record. If you've been watching the ...

There is a common belief that prescribed burning, thinning trees, and clearing underbrush reduce risks of the severity of future fires. But is that true? A new project analyzing 40 studies where ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Forest thinning and hazardous fuels reduction treatments are underway at the top of Cold Creek Trail near South Lake Tahoe. The project involves thinning of overly dense ...

EDIE: TONIGHT, FIREFIGHTERS ARE MAKING PROGRESS IN THEIR EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE ICONIC SEQUOIA TREES IN YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. THE WASHBURN FIRE HAS BURNED MORE THAN 2400 ACRES. THE GOOD NEWS TONIGHT ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Beginning the first week of June, Central Oregon Irrigation District will begin fire fuels reduction work on a 150-acre property in southwest Bend. The heavily vegetated site, ...