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 | 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 | Jul 28, 2017 | News, News/PR
The West Virginia Division of Forestry sent a crew of 20 men to help fight wildfires in the Rocky Mountains. The group of 14 state foresters and six volunteer firefighters took off for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today, where they will meet four more crews before jetting...
by Web Editor | Jun 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
Between North Bend and Snoqualmie Pass stands a wide swath of trees – brown on one side, green on the other. Karin Ripley, a forest health scientist with the Washington Department of Natural Resources calls it “red belt.” It’s the result of cold, dry...
by Web Editor | Jul 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
A large wildfire fuels-reduction project meant to protect subdivisions near forestland from the Tetons to the Snake River is being pursued once again by the Bridger-Teton National Forest. A U.S. Forest Service document completed this week outlines plans to thin 2,526...