Yahoo

Forest Service completed prescribed burns on 127,000 acres during shutdown, despite reduced workforce

A dead tree burns as the National Park Service performs a prescribed burn in 2019 in Sequoia National Park. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) During the government shutdown, the U.S. Forest Service ...
Noozhawk

County Fire Plans Prescribed Burn at Sedgwick Reserve

Grasslands stretch across part of the Sedgwick Reserve as charred hills in the distance show the path of July 2024's Lake Fire. Credit: Ray Ford / Noozhawk file photo The Santa Barbara County Fire ...
Agri-Pulse

Lawmakers reintroduce prescribed burning bill to tackle wildfire threats

Firefighters conduct a prescribed burn in Sonoma County. (photo: CalFire) A bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers of Congress has reintroduced the National Prescribed Fire Act to expand the ...
The Union Democrat

OUT THERE: Revisiting the South Grove at Big Trees after prescribed burning

On Sunday I went to Calaveras Big Trees State Park to join a guided tour of the South Grove of Giant Sequoias to see if prescribed burning last October and November has reduced fire threats in this ...
KTVZ

Oregon’s Merkley, Wyden seek to boost funding for prescribed burns, forest thinning to curb wildfire threats

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley spoke with KTVZ News Wednesday about efforts to improve forest management, through more thinning and prescribed burns, to reduce the intensity of major ...
AOL

Forest Service completed prescribed burns on 127,000 acres during shutdown, despite reduced workforce

During the government shutdown, the U.S. Forest Service completed prescribed burns on more than 127,000 acres, Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz announced in an internal memo on Nov. 14 welcoming back ...