by Web Editor | Jun 16, 2017 | News, News/PR
Summer wildfires boost air pollution considerably more than previously believed. Naturally burning timber and brush launch what are called fine particles into the air at a rate three times as high as levels noted in emissions inventories at the U.S. Environmental...
by Web Editor | Aug 22, 2014 | News, News/PR
High on a ridgeline in the Stanislaus National Forest, Chris Schow is driving through miles after mile of dead, blackened trees. “Obviously, before the Rim Fire came through, these trees would have been green, alive,” he says. As the U.S. Forest...
by Web Editor | Apr 11, 2014 | News, News/PR
A new study released today finds investing in proactive forest management activities in the Sierra Nevada can save up to three times the cost of future fires, reduce high-severity fire by up to 75 percent, and bring added benefits for people, water, and wildlife....
by Web Editor | Feb 7, 2014 | News, News/PR
The House approved a wide-ranging public lands bill Thursday that would speed logging of trees burned in last year’s massive Rim Fire in California. The measure also allows vehicular access to North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore, extends livestock grazing...
by Web Editor | Oct 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
If you burn it, they will come. That movie-based logic is how federal dollars get allocated for forests, say foresters, scientists, environmentalists and others familiar with how fire risk gets handled in the Sierra Nevada range. The Rim Fire that started Aug. 17 and...