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Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests

Regional experts believe eliminating the 2001 rule could impact the carbon capturing ability, fire resistance and integrity of the region’s forests.

By Sarah Mattalian

Fuels management specialists for the Chequamegon-Nicolet Nation Forest move a downed tree to open a path for vehicles on May 29 in Wisconsin. Credit: Eric A. Britton/USDA Forest Service
A Smokey Bear sign warns against wildfire in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Credit: Anna Mattson/Inside Climate News

New Jersey Cut Back on Prescribed Burns in the Pine Barrens—and Faces a Wildfire That Charred Thousands of Acres

By Anna Mattson

Archie Stone, the wildland coordinator for the Borger Fire Department, points to where the Windy Deuce fire stopped next to a 2023 prescribed burn line outside the city. Credit: Keaton Peters/Inside Climate News

As Climate Change Intensifies Wildfire Risk, Prescribed Burns Prove Their Worth in the Heat-Stressed Plains of the Texas Panhandle

By Keaton Peters

U.S. Forest Service firefighters conduct prescribed burning within Oregon's Gilchrist State Forest in May 2023. Credit: U.S. Forest Service

Indictment of US Forest Service ‘Burn Boss’ in Oregon Could Chill ‘Good Fires’ Across the Country

By Grant Stringer

A broadcast burn on The Nature Conservancy's Sycan Marsh Preserve in southern Oregon in 2017. Scientists found that prescribed burning helped parts of the preserve survive the enormous Bootleg fire in 2021. Credit: Amanda Rau

In Oregon, a New Program Is Training Burn Bosses to Help Put More “Good Fire” on the Ground

By Grant Stringer

A prescribed burn for longleaf pines on Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle. Military bases have some of the largest contiguous tracts of longleaf pines. Credit: Alexis Feysa/The Longleaf Alliance

Longleaf Pine Restoration—a Major Climate Effort in the South—Curbs Its Ambitions to Meet Harsh Realities

By Marianne Lavelle, and Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Dennis Pillion of AL.com

A firefighter works on putting out a hotspot from a wildfire on Friday May 13, 2022 in Mora, New Mexico as the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires burn in the region. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The US Forest Service Planned to Increase Burning to Prevent Wildfires. Will a Pause on Prescribed Fire Instead Bring More Delays?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

The Windy Fire blazes through the Long Meadow Grove of giant sequoia trees near The Trail of 100 Giants overnight in Sequoia National Forest on Sept. 21, 2021 near California Hot Springs, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

In California, a Race to Save the World’s Largest Trees From Megafires

By Twilight Greenaway

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