prescribed burning

Why Montana Firefighters Are Intentionally Burning Areas Around Two Wildfires

Crews are igniting vegetation between control lines and the main fires in areas where steep terrain, heavy fuels and safety concerns make direct attack difficult.

By Mosabber Hossain

Prescribed Burns and Forest Thinning Averted Millions of Tons of Emissions and Billions in Damages

By Steven Rodas

After Snowy Winter Delays Prevention, New Jersey Faces Rising Wildfire Risk

By Anna Mattson

How Indigenous Cultural Burns Can Help Heal Climate-Ravaged Forests—and People

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests

By Sarah Mattalian

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

By Anna Mattson

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

By Keaton Peters

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

By Grant Stringer

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

By Grant Stringer

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

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

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

By Twilight Greenaway