by Web Editor | Sep 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
As of Tuesday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, more than 8 million acres have burned in U.S. wildfires in 2015. 8,202,557 of them, to be precise. That’s an area larger than the state of Maryland. And the numbers are still growing: 65 large fires are...
by Web Editor | May 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
When Marty Stromberg first started managing her 160-acre tract that locals call Jack Pine Flats, she could turn a little profit from the trees that went to the nearby mill. Back in the 1980s, she did most of her logging with help from her big team of horses. By the...
by Web Editor | Apr 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
Just a few minutes after he and his crew intentionally set a small patch of bone-dry grass and brush ablaze in a Grant Creek neighborhood on Wednesday morning, Robert Dillon marveled at how quickly the fire spread. “It’s burning like it’s July,” he observed. “It’s...
by Web Editor | Aug 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
An out-of-control forest fire threatening more than 2,000 structures near Yosemite National Park was one of more than 50 active, large wildfires dotting the western U.S. on Wednesday. The remote blaze in Stanislaus National Forest west of Yosemite grew to more than 25...
by Web Editor | May 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
Two small but unseasonably early wildfires burning in northern California’s wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire season across the West. Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in...