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The wind from Washington, D.C., blows through Montana’s forests, and it smells like money.

For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape — closely monitored, but largely unchecked.

The Senate passed a bipartisan $1 trillion spending bill this week and the outline of a larger, Democrat-backed spending package. Together, the bills would provide tens of billions of dollars for R&D, technology demonstration projects, and research infrastructure over a multiyear period.

Date Time Where There’s Smoke: Reducing Downwind Impacts of Wildland Fire Management To thrive, southern Appalachian forests need fire. The region’s iconic Table Mountain pines, for example, can’t release their seeds without it. Wildfires, though, pose risks to people and property, especially where communities neighbor wildlands, and so natural resource managers strategically apply prescribed burns to maintain landscape health while reducing fire risks. New research at North Carolina Stat...

Alaska’s next generation of firefighters is learning on the job SPONSORED: Not many students can say they save lives as part of their college education, but for these University of Alaska Fairbanks students, it’s all in a day’s work. Author: University of Alaska Fairbanks Board of Advisors Published 1 hour ago Presented by UAF Paul Miranda was heading into his senior year of high school when, on a whim one day, he walked over to his neighborhood fire station in midtown Anchorage ...

As extreme fires transform Alaskas boreal forest, aspen and birch put a brake on carbon loss and how fast the forest burns The Conversation 2 hrs ago Jill Johnstone, Adjunct Professor of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Xanthe Walker, Assistant Research Professor, Northern Arizona University, Heather Dawn Alexander, Assistant Professor of Forest Ecology, Auburn University, and Michelle C. Mack, Professor of Ecosystem Ecology, Northern Arizona University © Michael Risinge...

BOSSIER CITY, La. -- A fire science program launched by the Bossier Parish Community College is further evidence that community college is no longer just for people getting started with

Angeles isnt a forest fire at all, it started in simi valley which is home of the reagan library and spread through suburban areas driven by high winds and dry conditions. responding to the presidents tweet the pasadena fire association wrote, mr. president, with all due respect you are wrong. the fires in southern california are urban interface fires and have nothing to do with forest management. come to so he cal and learn the facts and help the victims. the majority of californias forests inc...