Nearly two-thirds reduction in fire severity isn't some theoretical model, it's what happens when flames actually meet treated forest. In seasonally dry mixed conifer forests in the western United ...

Lightning-sparked flames raced through a roughly 3,000-acre tract of old-growth forest in the central Sierra Nevada during the Garnet Fire in September. Before this year, the Teakettle Experimental ...

President Donald Trump and his top Cabinet officials have repeatedly blamed the most catastrophic wildfires on poor forest management. His administration, however, appears to be lagging on that very ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters undertake a prescribed burn at the Upper Applegate Watershed near Medford, Oregon on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Such ...

A spot fire burns along Dinkey Creek Road as the Garnet Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest southeast of Shaver Lake Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. The lightning-caused fire which began Aug. 24 was ...

The Trump administration wants to build more roads in the country's national forests by rescinding a decades-old rule that protects nearly 60 million acres of forested lands. On Friday, the U.S.

A pair of disturbances common in Western Canada's boreal forests, when combined, may have an unexpected benefit of limiting the spread of non-native plant species, a University of Alberta study shows.

I attended the University of Montana as an undergraduate back in the 1970s. I had many professors who I felt were exceptional. The common denominator in the teachings of all my professors was to look ...

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to correct a typo in the headline. Federal legislators are raising concerns that cuts to the U.S. Forest Service staffing under President Donald Trump’s ...