Prescribed burns are widely recognized as an effective wildfire mitigation tool. Now, using satellite imagery, land ...

For millennia, Indigenous peoples have intentionally set fires to care for the land. Colonization and fire exclusion largely ...

A research team from Harvard has built a new tool called SMRT-Flames to help communities figure out where wildfire smoke ...

Before European settlers arrived in Western Montana, the Salish people traditionally managed the forest through prescribed burns, helping promote a healthy ecosystem.

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 ...

Initial location: Tulare County, Calif. The pile burning project, known as Merritt Vmp, was initiated 10:05 a.m. Feb. 6 in ...

The Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest draft decision calls for reducing forest fuels over nearly 40,000 acres per year ...

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.

It would be destructive to use the Grand Canyon Lodge tragedy as a reason to limit controlled burns in the future.

Denton Fire Department wildland firefighters plan to conduct three prescribed burns this week in native pollinator prairies ...

The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a plan to roughly double the acreage for prescribed burns across the ...