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Health Officials Say Half Of New Mexicans Now Fully Vaccinated – Associated Press New Mexico is now administering the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 to

View Comments BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials said Thursday they will try to stamp out wildfires as quickly as possible this year as severe drought tightens its grip across the West and sets the stage for another destructive summer of blazes. By aggressively responding to smaller fires, officials said they hope to minimize the number of so-called megafires that have become more common as climate change makes the landscape warmer and dryer. A similar approach was taken last year, driven ...

Thirty years ago, a fight over old-growth forests and the spotted owl forever transformed the way we see – and fight over – the natural world.

Oregon lawmakers reluctantly make $17 million downpayment on wildfire preparedness Updated Jan 09, 2021; Posted Jan 09, 2021 The Riverside fire burns in the Mount Hood National Forest, seen from La Dee Flats near the Clackamas River.Mount Hood National Forest Facebook Share If anything illustrated the need for Oregon to invest more in wildfire preparedness, it was last year’s cluster of Labor Day infernos that chewed through a million acres of forestland, destroyed thousands of homes and st...