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It's the second time the Center for Biological Diversity has filed such a lawsuit.

It's the second time the Center for Biological Diversity has filed such a lawsuit.

The enemy no more, fire helps regenerate forests Virginia Mercury Photos/Sarah Vogelsong Members of a fire team carry out a prescribed burn last month on Summers Mountain in Highland County. Sam Lindblom of the Nature Conservancy prepares a drone to drop ignitable “Dragon Eggs” over Summers Mountain during the prescribed burn. We do know that Indigenous people were burning. The Shenandoah Valley was open. We had bison, we had elk. So they were burning historically to keep these places open for grazing lands. — Justin Barnes, state forester HIGHLAND COUNTY — On the warme...

Living With Fire: What California Can Learn From Native Burns Officials are beginning to reimagine fire and land management, drawing upon Native American tradition and perspectives that were long outlawed. By Megan Botel Ed Kashi/VII The tribe’s spiritual leader, Keith Turner, begins burn day with a ceremony, blessing each member of the group with cleansing white sage. MARIPOSA, Calif. ― Rain falls on the 300-year-old oaks on a cold midwinter morning as a group of nearly 60 gathers here on what was once southern Sierra Miwok land. Some have returned year after year. Others are here for th...

6:33 On a clear late November afternoon two days before the start of the Wisconsin deer season in 1937, Royal Nettleton, 29, a Nicolet National Forest junior forester, climbed a tree. He was creating a map of the area and wanted to orient himself by looking for the tallest landmark in the area, the Jones Dam fire tower—the newest of 16 observation towers recently built on the Nicolet—when he heard two rifle shots in quick succession.  The first was accompanied by the whine of a bullet; a second bullet tore through his upper right thigh leaving an 8-inch hole and Nettleton yelled out “y...