…includes the southeast United States. That area has been in the news as wildfires have recently burned over 80,000 acres of land. Southern California has been suffering from a drought…
More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California
…acres and triggering the evacuation of 80,000 people. In the southeastern United States wildfires have burned more than 120,000 acres this fall. The southeast region of the Forest Service is…
Officials Warn of Flash Flood Potential
…potential for flash flooding during the rainy season now under way. Five years of drought conditions have exacerbated wildfires across the state. Rain is beginning to fall on fire burn…
Forestry Experts Say Tree Mortality Brings Added Risk
…fuels and replant trees. Otherwise, the conversion to chaparral could further increase risk of wildfires and affect the state’s water supply. A U.S. Forest Service survey, released in June, revealed…
State Seeks Way to Solve ‘A Big Biomass Problem’
Across California, tens of millions of trees are dead, intense wildfires burn, and orchard and forest waste piles up, as more plants that convert wood waste into electricity close due…
Lawmakers Still Face Issue of How to Pay for Fighting Wildfires
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…