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The following is a news release from Montana State University Billings.

The following is a news release from Montana State University Billings.

Prescribed burning, restoration thinning, or a combination of both are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.

Forest management strategies like restoration thinning and prescribed burning lower catastrophic wildfire risk, a California study confirms.

<p>A 20-year experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques — prescribed burning, restoration thinning or a combination of both — are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California. These treatments also improve forest health, making trees more resilient to stressors like drought and bark beetles, and they do not negatively impact plant or wildlife biodiversity within individual tree stands, the research found...

The Department of the Interior sends $9.3 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law toward wildfire mitigation and prevention in Colorado.

The Hawkins County Rescue Squad donated surplus communication equipment to the Cherokee High School Fire Science Program.

Federal policy for wildfire focuses on the fire's destruction – but what about the overlooked and underestimated danger of smoke?

In 2006, the Tripod Complex Fire burned more than 175,000 acres in north-central Washington. The fire, which was within the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, was more than three times the size of Seattle. Yet while considered severe at the time, ev

The IOOF Center in Corsicana was a tremendous setting for the 2023 Navarro County Firefighter’s Association Banquet. Tables were filled with individuals representing several of Navarro County’s nearly two-dozen Volunteer