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The Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands has issued a closure order for the Cedro 4 Project Area on the Sandia Ranger District

RENO — The forest of the Sierra Nevada mountains is an important resource for the surrounding communities in Nevada and California. Thinning the forest by removing trees by hand or using heavy machinery is one of the few tools available to manage forests.

Forest thinning and controlled burns take away fuel for fires, but the US can only treat so many acres. Which ones to choose?

The US Forest Service is concerned about the overgrowth of pine trees in and around Big Bear and have devised a plan to thin out the forest.

RENO — With wildland fires eating up the forests and rangelands of Nevada each summer, and fire season now upon us, University of Nevada, Reno scientists are examining how drought, climate change and land management will affect future fire activity and how fires can in turn influence plant, soil and hydrologic processes.

County commissioners awarded the project Monday morning to the lone bidder, Marcon Timber Company of Peshastin for roughly $152,000.

The Salt River Project is funding a new healthy fuels initiative north of Payson to prevent catastrophic wildfires and build water resiliency amidst the worst drought in state history.

Climate change creating the most explosive conditions in the west. the government now wants to reduce fuel and clear as much land as the size of idaho to tackle the, last falls infrastructure bill included billion set aside to fight wildfires before they start. >> when you look out here and see all these trees, you see beauty or do you see danger? >> both, i wish we could find it all. >> here in oregon, forest thinning could cost up to $900 per acre. government grants help, but there is not enou...

Opinion: A retired Montana Supreme Court justice says his state is going backward, not forward, in safeguarding the lands and waters that generations of both parties fought to preserve