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From the spruce-fir forests at the state’s highest elevations to the sea level sand flats of the coast, a newly released guidebook offers detailed descriptions of these and the other

Brush Fire Breaks Out In Anza: 3 Acres Burn - Temecula, CA - A Cal Fire air attack was launched Wednesday on an Anza area brush fire.

Learn about Volusia County’s conservation lands and land management practices during free Explore Volusia programs in October. Environmental specialists will lead a variety of outdoor adventures and volunteer and learn

She smoked it as a kid. Said she smoked grapevines too but it was Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, one of the everlastings, she talked about most. She and her brothers and sisters

Was alive with fire and literally two of those sky screens came in and dropped two loads of water and stop the flame right about here 30 or 40 yards wide. this is simi valley, youve got sumac, youve got grasses, youve got scrub oak in the grasses go pretty fast but when i hit some of these bushes which are five or 6 feet tall you can get a pretty good flame. chris. >> chris: william i can see you standing against that wind in the forecasters say those winds are going to die down anytime soon. sp...

blamed on hurricane/tropical storm irene. more than three million homes and businesses still dont have power. flood warnings still are in effect in five states from vermont to new jersey. all this brings me to my colleague, mary snow, in patterson, new jersey. mary, what is going on there around you right now? >> reporter: well, evacuations have been going on for the past 48 hours and they are only intensifying because you just mentioned, there are some rivers that have yet to crest. h...

You know, because its one of those situations you really cant change it. to i had some fun wit. when i got to ben, thats when i hit him up with did you lock your car? and now because you didnt lock it, your cars been stolen. im giving him grief, but then i said its been stolen by a bear. the police were very good, they were laughing about it. it was kind of a comical thing, but he got in there and he probably traveled 125 feet, down an embankment bounced off a few trees and came to rest in some ...

Thank goodness this is kind of a sparsely populated region compared to new york city. i dont want to say no one lives there, because they do. >> sure. >> when a fire begins in this area, it will burn for hours. >> right. >> they will not be able to catch up to it, because it is already going. it will be a wildfire. we have the fire-detection system that we can actually look at. put on it google earth, kansas, oklahoma, texas. >> yep. >> were looking for fires in this region here, and thank goodn...