Wildfires continue to rage across the West and the debate continues to rage on how to pay for fighting those fires. Gary Crawford has the story. Lawmakers Still Face Issue…
Ranchers, Loggers Express Concerns About Forest Plans
…from wildfires, insects and disease will have to be piled and burned. In a letter requesting the time extension for comments on the forest plans, CFBF Associate Counsel Jack Rice…
Managed Grazing Helps Forests, Experts Say
…forest,” he said. “This ultimately leads to more wildfires and definitely more devastating and hotter-burning wildfires.” At one time, public rangelands and forestlands across the West had been grazed more…
Farming from the Heart- Cal Poly Student’s Forestry Insight
…California uses comes from California trees. When speaking about threats to the industry, she tells us a big threat to the industry is catastrophic wildfires. Every year there seems to…
NACD Responds to Approval of EPA Spending Bills
…of annual acres burned has doubled since 1980. “The only way we have a chance at preventing the destruction wildfires leave behind is to properly fund the Forest Service’s forest…
CFBF Seeks Movement on Drought Bills
…that extra fuel.” He said Congress needs to treat wildfires “like a regular disaster like an earthquake, flood or hurricane.” During their meetings in Washington, Farm Bureau leaders addressed a…
Wildland Fires in a Tube
…EPA conducts on wildfires to protect human health and the environment? Listen to our Science Bite Podcast Following the Smoke: Wildfires and Health. About the author: Dina Abdulhadi is a…
Adapting to a Changing Climate
…West while increasingly intense wildfires rip through landscapes from the Southwest to the Pacific Northwest up to Alaska. In this new reality, farmers, ranchers and landowners began to search out…
It’s Not Just Climate Change
It’s not just climate change: Study finds human activity is a major factor driving wildfires by Emily Grebenstein, George Washington University, emgreb@gwu.edu A new study examining wildfires in California found…
Nearly $1.5 Million to Two Universities in California to Protect Air Quality in a Changing Climate
…affect air quality and impact public health. With the funding, researchers across the country will expand investigations to understand: Health impacts from smoke due to a rise in wildfires that…
Effects of Drought for Forests and Rangelands
…effects. Drought and warmer temperatures may increase risks of large-scale insect outbreaks and larger wildfires, especially in the western U.S. Drought and warmer temperature may accelerate tree and shrub death,…
Vilsack Urges Congress to Pass Wildfire Funding Fix
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Announces 2015 Wildfires Burned Record Acres, Urges Congress to Pass Wildfire Funding Fix Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that in 2015, wildfires burned a record…
Wildfires have Set New Record for Acres Burned In 2015
Brad Rippey, USDA meteorologist, saying that this latest late year rash of wildfires in California has pushed this year’s acreage burned to a new record high. Wildfires have Set New…
So Cal Wildfire Threat Could Soon Be Reduced
An incoming system could bring needed moisture to Southern California, reducing the threat of wildfires like those during Christmas weekend. So Cal Wildfire Threat Could Soon Be Reduced…