by Web Editor | Mar 1, 2017 | News, News/PR
Wildfires can start when lightning strikes or when someone fails to put out a campfire. New research shows that people start a lot more fires than lightning does — so much so that people are drastically altering wildfire in America. Fire ecologist Melissa Forder says...
by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2015 | News, News/PR
Snow blankets the landscape in north central Washington. What you can’t see is the scorched earth left from last summer’s Carlton Complex fire. Even through the snow, Susan Prichard, a fire ecologist for the University of Washington, can see the damage. She can also...