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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

Guadalupe Ruiz, 25, leads an all-women wildland fire crew back to their training center in Yosemite National Park in August 2022. Credit: Jennifer Emerling for The 19th

This Program is Blazing a Trail for Women in Wildland Firefighting

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

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