wildfire management

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

In addition to preventing an estimated 2.7 million tons of carbon emissions and $2.8 billion in damages, UC Davis researchers determined that fuel treatments prevented nearly 60 premature deaths.

By Steven Rodas

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

By Anna Mattson

Colorado Warns of Severe Fire Risk in Southwestern States. It May be Difficult to Share Resources.

By Colorado College Journalism Institute

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

By Zoë Rom

The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires

By Jaylan Sims

Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not.

By Katie Surma

A Record Wildfire Season Inspires Wyoming to Prepare for an Increasingly Fiery Future

By Jake Bolster

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

By Kiley Price

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

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

A Debate Heats Up over California’s ‘Zone Zero’ Rules to Cut Home Losses to Flammable Vegetation

By Blanca Begert

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

By Anna Mattson

Burned Homes Can Be Rebuilt More Resilient to Wildfires, but Many Homeowners Can’t Afford the Price

By Diana Kruzman

NYC’s Inwood Hill Park Looks Ahead After a Fall Fire Season

By Ayanna Dickinson

Could the Northeast Burn Again?

By Olivia Gieger

US Forest Service Hiring Freeze Could Have Long-Term Impacts

By Zoë Rom

Insurance Insiders Say Regulation and Mitigation Can Keep the Industry from Retreating in Colorado

By Tim Drugan

California Ballot Asks Voters to Invest in Climate Solutions

By Liza Gross

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

By Keaton Peters