Community members, agency staffers, landowners and researchers tend a prescribed burn in Placerville, California in February 2022. (Tim McConville/UC Davis) Prescribed fire, which mimics natural fire ...
Prescribed fire, which mimics natural fire regimes, can help improve forest health and reduce the likelihood of catastrophic wildfire. But this management tool is underused in the fire-prone U.S. West ...
Prescribed fire -- a tool increasingly used by forest managers and landowners to combat invasive species, improve wildlife habitat and restore ecosystem health -- also could play a role in reducing ...
The Athens Prescribed Fire Science Lab is equipped with large fans that allow the team to simulate winds of up to 90 miles per hour, reproducing conditions of prescribed fire in the field. Prescribed ...
SAN ANGELO – As prescribed fire gains popularity as a range management tool, so does the need for up-to-the-minute information. To meet the growing need, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service ...
Fighting woody plant encroachment with prescribed burns may be more effective than land managers previously thought. A study by Bill Rogers, Ph.D., professor in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture ...
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Post-fire recovery and prescribed burning in Yolo and Solano counties
The public is invited to join The Yolo and Solano Prescribed Burn Associations (PBAs) for an informative social event including a BBQ potluck and tour of the post-fire restoration at Lake Solano ...
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 after a ...
A firefighter lights a backfire to stop the Caldor Fire from spreading near South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) (CN) — As the Caldor Fire encroached upon South Lake Tahoe over Labor ...
Real-time tools, visuals, and other resources to quantify the role of climate change in weather events. Alerts We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable ...
Federal officials are warning that expanding drought conditions coupled with hot and dry weather, extreme wind and unstable atmospheric conditions have led to explosive fire behavior in the ...
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