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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

The U.S. Forest Service will begin accepting applications for more grants to protect communities at risk for wildfires.

Imagine a burned forest in California. The charred remains of trees, the soot on the forest floor and the smoke in the air might make it seem like all is lost. Far from it. While fires negatively affect many species of animals, they also spawn new and complicated ecosystems with rich biodiversity. In California, the […]

Scientists have created a tool based on the habitat preferences of the black-backed woodpecker to help forest managers make decisions that promote regrowth and biodiversity following wildfires.

What's good for the Black-backed Woodpecker is good for restoration of burned California forests. The birds' unique relationship with fire underpins the latest research into improved post-fire management. A study published in Ecological Applications describes a new tool that factors in how fires burn into forest management decisions and turns science into action for wildlife conservation.

The $500,000 award will help enhance post-fire social and ecological recovery

Science for a safer, more informed world.

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