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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.

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

Researchers have developed a new tool, REBURN, that can simulate large forest landscapes and wildfire dynamics over decades or centuries under different wildfire management strategies. The model can simulate the consequences of extinguishing all wildfires regardless of size, which was done for much of the 20th century and has contributed to a rise in large and severe wildfires, or of allowing certain fires to return to uninhabited areas to help create a more 'patchwork' forest structur...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sees the Biden administration’s climate agenda as a boon for rural economies, he said during a recent visit to Portland’s World Forestry Center.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sees the Biden administration’s climate agenda as a boon for rural economies, he said during a recent visit to Portland’s World Forestry Center.

PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sees the Biden administration’s climate agenda as a boon for rural economies, he said Monday during a visit to Portland’s World Forestry …