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Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season

With a puny snowpack in the Western mountains and a widespread drought, the nation is a tinderbox. A reorganization of federal firefighting efforts and the departure of many staff qualified to join the fight are heightening concern.

By Peter Aldhous

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

By Marianne Lavelle

USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests

By Zoë Rom

Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump’s Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting

By Kiley Price

Woodland firefighting bootcamps geared toward women have offered a less intimidating entry point into the male-dominated field, where approximately 13 percent of firefighters are women. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

‘It’s All Been Scrapped’: Women in Wildland Firefighting Bootcamps Canceled After DEI Cuts

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Incarcerated firefighters from the Growlersburg crew hike up a mountain to control the Hughes Fire in Los Angeles County on Jan. 23. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

Pride, Peril and $56 a Month: One Formerly Incarcerated California Firefighter’s Story

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

The Jennings Creek wildfire burned over 5,000 acres across New York and New Jersey and took 14 days to contain. Credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

New York Isn’t Ready to Fight More Wildfires

By Nathan Porceng, New York Focus

Low Wages and Health Risks Are Crippling the U.S. Wildland Firefighting Forces

By Kiley Price

Inside Indiana’s ‘Advanced’ Plastics Recycling Plant: Dangerous Vapors, Oil Spills and Life-Threatening Fires

By James Bruggers

Shining a Light on Suicide Risk for Wildland Firefighters

By Liza Gross

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