The Great Chicago Fire? Right date, wrong event. I am referring to the Peshtigo Fire, a forest fire that destroyed 1.2 million acres and more than a dozen towns in Wisconsin. A mass grave in the ...

Back in 2022, the U.S. Forest Service shared plans for a proposed North Landscape Restoration Project aimed at promoting ...

Internal documents show the Forest Service discussing — both internally and with the timber industry — how its legal and ...

The firefighter pulled the black hose down a hill. “Good?” she called out. “All the way down,” a voice responded. Brea ...

Cal Fire’s total base wildfire protection budget has nearly tripled over the past 10 years, from $1.1 billion in 2014‑15 to $3 billion in 2023‑24.

A new prescribed burn, called 2025 Butte County Pile, was initiated today at 3:59 p.m. in Lassen County. The prescribed fire ...

leaving $2.6 billion of supplemental fire prevention funding intact. "Most of these reductions were to planned augmentations to departments other than CalFire, such as for forest and fire ...

Forest Department staff create fire lines in fire-prone areas to prevent forest fires, engaging tribal communities for ...

The project aims to manage fuels and improve fire resiliency in ... protect public health and safety, critical infrastructure, and natural resources on National Forest System lands from ...

A new prescribed burn, called Yrrd Camp Ss, was initiated today at 8:40 a.m. in Yuba County. The prescribed fire has been ...