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In spite of Tuesday’s dreary weather, about 45 people attended an open workshop hosted on Oct. 26 by the Utah State University Moab Extension to talk about recovery efforts for

Wildland Fire Terminology 101 and last updated 2021-07-11 20:19:22-04 Wildland firefighters often use terminology unfamiliar to the general public. This glossary is intended to help people better understand the terminology used by fire crews and in news reports. Aerial Fuels: All live and dead vegetation in the forest canopy or above surface fuels, including tree branches, twigs and cones, snags, moss, and high brush. Air Tanker: A fixed-wing aircraft equipped to drop fire retardants or suppressants. Tankers are often referred to by their plane model type, such as the DC-10 Air Tanker. Agen...

In praise of Douglas-fir — the northwest's original Christmas tree, and so much more Josh Farley, Kitsap Sun "Daddy!" my daughter exclaimed. "I wanna go to Douglas."   My 2-year-old knows no one of that name. She wanted to see a tree.  Throughout the pandemic, the two of us have trekked rain or shine to the green canopy of a solitary neighborhood Douglas fir. There, we've scavenged twigs and cones below its trunk, played countless games of peek-a-boo around its rugged bark or just stared upward as the wind blew through its branches. It's an impressive conifer to a ma...

Now the president has gone to california. he has done that. urban interface, by the way, just for clarity, that is essentially a transition zone between wildlands and human building, essentially. and i thought, well, the president is a businessman. he builds things. wouldn't he be able to put his expertise to this in some way? >> well, we would hope so. we are hearing now from being different experts criticizing the way the president is describing what happened, criticizing the focus on forest management, saying that we have fires in the area for other reasons, that he has to pay more attentio...