Forest Service warns of budget cuts ahead of a risky wildfire season – what that means for safety
A hot, dry summer on the heels of a wet winter raises the risk of wildfires.
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A hot, dry summer on the heels of a wet winter raises the risk of wildfires.
“The incentive is often not to burn,” wrote a research team in a recent paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Environment.
Long-banned in California, prescribed and cultural burning practices are being looked at as a tool to help prevent large, destructive wildfires.
A relatively quiet wildfire season and the right weather at the right time have allowed for a productive stretch of prescribed burning in California.
Forest thinning and controlled burns take away fuel for fires, but the US can only treat so many acres. Which ones to choose?