As wildfires get more intense, there are questions about how effective prescribed fire and other fuel treatments can be. New research suggests that they can still have real impacts.

A new prescribed burn, named Huasna Ranch Ria Burn, was initiated 8:09 p.m. Dec. 16 in San Luis Obispo County, California.

A new prescribed burn, named Mh South, was initiated today at 8:01 a.m. in Plumas County, California. The prescribed fire has ...

A key strength of the training program is the instructors’ proficiency with prescribed burning. The cadre of instructors ...

The Bureau of Land Management says it is continuing a very successful prescribed burns season, with more than 18,000 acres ...

Wildfire season is over, but the weather is right for putting fire to work in preparation for the next one. A warm October and terrible mid-month air quality thanks to wildfires, like the Cedar Creek ...

BLRD: Crews ignited five acres prescribed fire on the Oak Fire burn piles near Battalion Pass, at 5S41 Alpha Road. Ignitions took place on Monday, Dec. 8 with smoke expected to be highly visible in ...

BIA and White Mountain Apache Tribal Forestry monitor prescribed fire blocks after recent pile burning operations.

The agency said states shouldn’t discourage the use of prescribed wildland burning as they aim to meet federal air quality standards. Smoke from prescribed fires shouldn’t count against states’ ...

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 ...

We know home fire insurance policies have gotten more expensive and harder to obtain — especially in areas of the Western United States that are prone to wildfires. But there are other groups that ...

Orange flames crackle and quickly burn bright green and yellow grass to blackened ash. Smoke drifts through the long-leaf pine trunks. On the edges of the fire, wildland fire experts in green cargo ...