by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2017 | News, News/PR
In 1995, the U.S. Forest Service spent 16 percent of its total budget on fighting fires. Today, it’s 52 percent and growing. What’s changed? “Everything,” said Matthew Thompson, a research forester who works at the agency’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort...
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 | Mar 1, 2017 | News, News/PR
Wildfires can start when lightning strikes or when someone fails to put out a campfire. New research shows that people start a lot more fires than lightning does — so much so that people are drastically altering wildfire in America. Fire ecologist Melissa Forder says...
by Web Editor | Jul 22, 2015 | News, News/PR
Evidence presented in a recently released study, authored by a team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service, University of Maryland and University of Kentucky, reveals new findings about how wildfires actually spread and could have significant impacts on...
by Web Editor | Jul 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
NASA and the U.S. Forest Service signed a Space Act Agreement recently that unites the two agencies in raising awareness about the importance of fire prevention and fire safety. This partnership will highlight areas of common interest in wildfires, forest and plant...