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A University of Washington research scientist has helped develop a modeling tool that may lead to fewer future wildfires in the Northwest.

A large-scale cleanup is underway at the site of a homeless encampment tucked in a forested area northwest of Deerfoot Trail and Glenmore Trail.

Some have called for the federal government to establish a national wildfire service with trained crews that can be sent wherever needed in the country.

But Ottawa is saying no to a federal agency and Premier Eby is eying setting up local wildfire volunteer groups

Union of BC Municipalities president says more money and assistance — not finger-pointing — is needed to help communities to reduce their wildfire risk.

Union of B.C. Municipalities responds to Forest Minister Ralstons comments, blaming local govts for slow pace of wildfire fuel reduction.

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

A report authored after B.C.'s 2003 wildfire season called for a massive effort to clear fuels from the province's forests, but just a fraction of that work has been completed.

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...

More forest thinning is needed which involves removing trees