wildfire

USA Today reports:   A recent audit faults the U.S. Forest Service’s hazardous fuels reduction program for failing to prioritize or accurately account for efforts aimed at minimizing fire intensity. …

Billings, MT – The 2012 fires that raged across southeast Montana have not been forgotten by DNRC fire managers. In fact, this year’s hot and dry situation brings memories of …

  Western Governors' Association reports:  Wildfire season is beginning to rage across the West, with the three largest blazes in Arizona and New Mexico.  Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has declared a state of …

By Dan Elliott, Claims Journal The upcoming wildfire season across the U.S. isn’t expected to be as bad as last year’s infernos, when a record 15,800 square miles burned, the …

Northern Ag Network Note:  Although this article was originally written last August in response to the wildfires in California, it's unfortunately still very much relevant this early in the spring. …

With over 400,000 acres burnt in Kansas and Oklahoma many farmers and ranchers have lost a great deal in the flames. Lane Nordlund spoke with Farm Broadcaster Kyle Bauer of …

New report suggests strategic land-use planning can increase firefighting efficiency Building houses far apart and in locales beyond town – the wildland-urban interface – increases firefighting costs in the Rocky …

Ranchers in northwestern South Dakota are suing the federal government for damages caused by a 2013 prescribed burn that escaped, and ended up burning 17 square miles total, 11 square …

By STEPHANIE PAIGE OGBURN   A better wildfire weather prediction system might have saved more lives and property. The state of Colorado thinks so, and has agreed to beta test …

by Keith Ridler, Associated Press Forest-dwelling communities in the West must do a better job at making their homes resistant to wildfires so that wildland firefighters can better defend those …