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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Happy Earth Week and Happy Friday, Lake Tahoe! Earth Week continues with Healthy Forest Friday. Living in beautiful Lake Tahoe has many advantages, but we all must do our part to promote healthy forests and prepare for fire. Learn how to get prepared, get informed and get involved by visiting takecaretahoe.org.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Happy Earth Week and happy Friday, Lake Tahoe! Earth Week continues with Healthy Forest Friday. Living in beautiful Lake Tahoe has many advantages, but we all must do our part...

(SPRINGFIELD, Colo.) — Comanche National Grasslands in Southeast Colorado has an ongoing project to reduce hazardous fuels that increase wildfire risk. As part of this project, they have plans to burn up to 2,843 acres of National Forest System lands. According to the U.S. Forest Service, “Prescribed fires… are effective land management tools frequently used […]

Coconino National Forest fire managers plan to continue conducting pile burns on the Flagstaff Ranger District and Mogollon Rim Ranger District this week.

The Flagstaff Ranger District plans to conduct pile burns throughout the week in three locations near the City of Flagstaff.

Forest fires are often associated with destruction, but, at the Athens Prescribed Fire Science Lab, University of Georgia and Forest Service researchers are learning how to use fire to improve

<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...

Deployed in key areas, tactic could drastically reduce smoke exposure across region, study finds.

The arrival of warmer temperatures has melted the snow in the valley, which brings under burning in the Klamath National Forest.

Smokey the Bear, Disney’s “Bambi,” and a plethora of other fire suppression movements stigmatized and alienated fire’s vital role in nature. In recent years, due to devastating forest fires, forest management has realized the need of fire for healthy ecosystems.