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The wind from Washington, D.C., blows through Montana’s forests, and it smells like money.

For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape — closely monitored, but largely unchecked.

The Senate passed a bipartisan $1 trillion spending bill this week and the outline of a larger, Democrat-backed spending package. Together, the bills would provide tens of billions of dollars for R&D, technology demonstration projects, and research infrastructure over a multiyear period.

Date Time Where There’s Smoke: Reducing Downwind Impacts of Wildland Fire Management To thrive, southern Appalachian forests need fire. The region’s iconic Table Mountain pines, for example, can’t release their seeds without it. Wildfires, though, pose risks to people and property, especially where communities neighbor wildlands, and so natural resource managers strategically apply prescribed burns to maintain landscape health while reducing fire risks. New research at North Carolina State University led by Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Kate Jones will use geospatial modeling and i...

Alaska’s next generation of firefighters is learning on the job SPONSORED: Not many students can say they save lives as part of their college education, but for these University of Alaska Fairbanks students, it’s all in a day’s work. Author: University of Alaska Fairbanks Board of Advisors Published 1 hour ago Presented by UAF Paul Miranda was heading into his senior year of high school when, on a whim one day, he walked over to his neighborhood fire station in midtown Anchorage to see what he could learn about firefighting. That chance visit led him to the University of Alask...