A new prescribed burn, named Cedar Ridge, was initiated today at 3:15 p.m. in Tuolumne County, California. The prescribed ...

Wildfire takes no prisoners, has no mercy, knows no boundaries, respects no nation and is a clear and present danger this and every summer as summers grow drier and hotter. The American West is ...

A new prescribed burn, called Iron Trails, was initiated 9:38 a.m. Jan. 11 in El Dorado County, California. The prescribed ...

Prescribed burn associations provide knowledge and careful planning for controlled fires, legal protection, volunteer ...

Fire officials say winter’s dried vegetation creates tricky conditions for prescribed burns, emphasizing the importance of ...

The U.S. Forest Service for the Los Padres National Forest has scheduled prescribed burning to start this month in the ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

Prescribed burning was down by roughly half this year on the Deschutes National Forest compared to a year ago and well below the 10-year average, raising questions from local officials about ...

PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) -- If conditions are favorable on Wednesday, fire managers with the Ochoco National Forest plan to conduct more than 3,300 acres of prescribed burning operations in the Maury ...

A two-decade-long experiment in the Sierra Nevada found that regular prescribed burns promote carbon sequestration in live trees and plants, maintaining forests' long-term ability to store carbon ...