Can The U.S. Forest Service Shift Its Fire Focus?

For years, Davey Pitcher pushed federal foresters for permission to protect trees just outside of his family’s Wolf Creek Ski Area from the invasion of the spruce beetle. The West Fork complex of wildfires bore down on Wolf Creek this summer. Davey Pitcher wants the...

U.S. Runs Out Of Funds To Battle Wildfires

In the worst wildfire season on record, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service ran out of money to pay for firefighters, fire trucks and aircraft that dump retardant on monstrous flames. So officials did about the only thing they could: take money from...