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Black River Technical College is hoping to get would-be firefighters on the field as the nation battles a firefighter shortage.

"I did everything exactly how I was supposed to and I'm really proud of that,” said Baumann.

Science for a safer, more informed world.

Higher education aims to take people and communities across Texas to higher ground.

For a researcher who studies wildfire, University of Montana graduate student Kyra Clark-Wolf couldn’t have had better timing. Clark-Wolf arrived in Missoula to start her graduate studies on the impacts of wildfires on forests at the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation on July 4, 2017. Eleven days later, a lightning strike sparked the Lolo Peak Fire just south of the city, burning nearly 54,000 acres and leaving lasting and indelible images among Missoulians of dense smoke and ...

MISSOULA –For a researcher who studies wildfire, University of Montana graduate student Kyra Clark-Wolf couldn’t have had better timing. Clark-Wolf

MISSOULA –For a researcher who studies wildfire, University of Montana graduate student Kyra Clark-Wolf couldn’t have had better timing. Clark-Wolf

To further prescribed fire knowledge, Hoffman and a group of researchers spanning fire science fields are conducting more than 30 experimental prescribed burns across the southeastern United States with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program’s Wildland Fire Science Initiative. Research burns at Fort Stewart, Georgia, which involves nearly 50 fire scientists from around the country will add to the science that informs land manage...

Today, Deputy Secretary Beaudreau announced that over $5.9 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will support fuels management projects in Nevada.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the Interior department announced it has invested over $5.1 million to advance wildfire resilience work and support fuels management projects in Colorado during fiscal year 2022. The funding comes from President Biden’s...