Forest managers repeatedly burned and thinned fuels across the zone that the Dragon Bravo Fire torched. But Grand Canyon ...

As Australia and the world grapple with global warming and increased bushfire risks, University of South Australia ecologists ...

Prescribed fire is an important and effective wildlife habitat management and forestry tool. When used correctly, fire can improve habitat for a variety of wildlife species, forage for cattle, and ...

A team of Stanford scientists found that pre-burning certain areas reduced the severity of future wildfires by as much as 16% ...

Prescribed fire is largely the purview of DEC Forest Rangers in New York state. In some other states, though, particularly in the south, it's a common practice among private landowners.

(AP Photo/Jake Schoellkopf, File) Experts agree there’s always room for improvement when it comes to managing wildfires and ...

Over time, they hope to build a prescribed fire workforce equal to the nation's 15,000-person fire suppression workforce. There's a lot to be burned, or "treated," as the Forest Service likes to say.

Amanda Rau, prescribed fire coordinator for Oregon Department of Forestry, said there’s a lot of factors that go into planning for a prescribed burn. “It's slightly mystified.

The U.S. Forest Service is resuming its prescribed burning program with new rules that it says will minimize the risk of fires escaping control and damaging communities. The announcement comes ...

A new prescribed burn, called Sac Valley Conservancy, was initiated 8:55 p.m. Jan. 6 in Sacramento County, California. The prescribed fire has been burning on private land for six months. Currently, ...

Every year, land managers intentionally set millions of acres on fire across the United States. Last month, one of those prescribed fires in Eastern Oregon’s Grant County had the rare ...