by Web Editor | Feb 23, 2018 | News, News/PR
It’s not the way we fight wildfires in the West that’s the problem. The problem is the way we manage our fire-dependent forests. Since 2000, 154 wildfires in the region have cost over $20 million each to control. Many of them cost several times more. Together, these...
by Web Editor | Feb 2, 2018 | News, News/PR
Montana is appealing FEMA’s denial of the state’s request for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration following last year’s historic fire season. In late December, the federal government denied Governor Bullock’s initial request for help in covering some of...
by Web Editor | Jun 29, 2016 | News, News/PR
Wildfires destroyed at least 80 homes and threatened an additional 1,500 as flames tore through Central California’s rural communities Friday, according to authorities. The blaze broke out Thursday as temperatures rose to a 90-plus degrees F. dry heat, moving...
by Web Editor | Apr 22, 2016 | News, News/PR
Every few days this spring, another small wildfire breaks out in the Pinelands, a 1.1-million-acre tract in southern New Jersey that spans seven counties and is home to some 500,000 people. So far this year, firefighters have doused the flames before they caused any...
by Web Editor | Oct 19, 2015 | News, News/PR
Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster Thursday in Bastrop County outside Austin, where a wildfire destroyed 38 structures, most of them homes, and raced across nearly 4,400 acres, authorities said. The Hidden Pines Fire threatens more than 150 homes,...