In a historic forest, gentle fires burned often enough to clear dead wood and small trees from under the big trees. They might flare up in a pile of logs or a patch of thick trees, but would quickly drop…
The company was found responsible for numerous wildfires in the past, including the 2018 Paradise fire that killed 86 people... This preemptive move aims to reduce future wildfires. Shelby Talcott Daily Caller More than 1 million Californians are expected to…
“It’s just a matter of time,” says Amy Head, a Cal Fire battalion chief. “When it happens, we’re looking at dry standing fuel ready to burn, and it could be pretty catastrophic.” Tom Stienstra San Francisco Chronicle Outdoors With 147…
In short, to blame the fires in California on the source of a fire’s ignition are attempts by politicians and bureaucrats to mislead the public’s attention away from their culpability for their errant policies that have created the conditions…
Indeed, the latest National Climate Assessment special report found there’s only a “low to medium confidence for a detectable human climate change contribution in the western United States based on existing studies.” Michael Bastasch Daily Caller IT’S ‘NOT CORRECT’ TO…
“On the Rattlesnake Fire, it didn’t burn hardly any on the White Mountain Apache side because it burned up to their prescribed burn and pretty much went out,” said Mr. Best. “If we would have treated our side of the…
The study found that sage grouse breeding does not occur where pinyon-juniper occupies more than 4 percent of the land area. Wildlife biologists say the trees give a perch to birds of prey, which lead the sage grouse to instinctively…
The act was passed in 1980 to help veterans with disabilities pursue claims against the federal government. Today it has been expanded, largely by the 9th Circuit Court, providing a way for “nonprofit” groups to sue the U.S. Forest Service…
"This plan posits the redisposition of approximately 50,000 wild horses held in BLM and USFS corrals in and around selected wilderness forest areas via proportionate allocations based upon established carrying capacity of the land, specifically areas where no conflicting livestock…
Across the country, particularly in the west, national forests have millions of dead and dying trees. Growth and mortality rates far outpace fuels reduction and timber harvesting. Forests have become unnaturally dense and overgrown, and insect epidemics have laid waste…