by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2018 | News, News/PR
Despite hot, dry conditions, wildland fire crews wrangled 18 percent containment in the Garner Complex, which reached 19,944 acres Wednesday, fire officials said. The complex declared a conflagration by the governor last week comprises fires started by lightning on...
by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2017 | News, News/PR
Overgrown Arizona forests have fueled unprecedented fires, burning bigger and hotter. “Forests that once had 40 to 50 trees per acre, now have 500 to a thousand trees per acre,” said Patrick Graham, director of the Arizona Nature Conservancy, at a news...
by Web Editor | Aug 7, 2017 | News, News/PR
The harder we struggle against wildfires, the deeper we sink, like we’re in quicksand, says Mark Finney, research forester for the U.S Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. “It’s called the fire paradox,” says Finney, a fire behavior expert based at the...
by Web Editor | Mar 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving $37 million dollars to South Dakota so a number of forest districts in the country can be thinned, including one district in the Black Hills. Sixty-five hundred acres in the Hell Canyon Ranger District of the Black Hills...
by Web Editor | May 30, 2014 | News, News/PR
The 2013 wildfire season in Idaho was one of the worst on record, with three massive fires destroying homes and forcing thousands of evacuations. According to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, the Pony, Elk, and Beaver Creek fires burned a total of nearly...