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Update: Prescribed fire Merritt Vmp in Tulare County – July 31 status
Initial location: Tulare County, Calif. The pile burning project, known as Merritt Vmp, was initiated 10:05 a.m. Feb. 6 in ...
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Study: Prescribed burns substantially reduce wildfire severity, smoke
Prescribed burns are widely recognized as an effective wildfire mitigation tool. Now, using satellite imagery, land ...
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Study: Prescribed burning substantially reduces wildfire severity, smoke emissions
Prescribed burns are widely recognized as an effective wildfire mitigation tool. Now, using satellite imagery, land ...
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With reforms in place, California’s Karuk Tribe works to reestablish cultural burning as 'common practice'
For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely ...
Boyd Hill near downtown St. Pete was just set on fire. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
It’s hard enough to plan for a prescribed fire in a nature preserve: The wind needs to be just right. Detailed maps are drawn. Plants should be dry. But planning to burn at a preserve in the heart of ...
'There's trauma and it's real': Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition looks to the future of prescribed burns
The last widespread fire in the area known as t Fireshed took place in 1880, according to Ellis Margolis of the U.S. Geological Survey. In order to improve the forest resiliency, Margolis said, that ...
Controlled burns used in Minnesota, St. Cloud for ecosystem health, wildfire control
Both Minnesota and St. Cloud use prescribed burns in the spring to protect prairie species and avoid bigger fires in the future. Here's what to know.
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Forest gumption: Feds unveil 'aggressive' treatment plan for central Montana forests
The Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest draft decision calls for reducing forest fuels over nearly 40,000 acres per year ...
Feds thinned Grand Canyon fuels before Dragon Bravo Fire, but some work was years old
Forest managers repeatedly burned and thinned fuels across the zone that the Dragon Bravo Fire torched. But Grand Canyon ...
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'Another Roaring Lion' averted: How forest management prevented a huge Hamilton fire
A Bitterroot National Forest Service fuels reduction project implemented seven years ago prevented a wildfire from growing ...
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Prescribed burning, a return to traditional Indigenous practices
Before European settlers arrived in Western Montana, the Salish people traditionally managed the forest through prescribed burns, helping promote a healthy ecosystem.