Firefighters have been jumping on small blazes that pop up. One, in a dry riverbed near Oxnard Monday night, was quickly smothered. “We’ve got helicopters ready to go, to drop water on any new fires,” said A
(Landres et al.2015), has at times required some degree of intentional human action, for example, to limit the spread of invasive species or restore rare biota (Lieberman et al.2018). Today, wilderness managers must often navigate between the untrammeled and natural qualities as they consider...
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1/16th degrees latitude/longitude. We selected a VIC grid point near the First Butte RAWS (Remote Automated Weather Station) station that was within the lower elevation dry and moist mixed forest zone. We also selected a VIC grid point within the high-elevation cold forest zone to provide add...
Today, every fire is also the world’s fire, linked to climate change feedback loops. Predictions based on climate change models make the need to engage in serious, transparent problem-solving even more compelling. Sixty-two percent of the Earth’s surface is predicted to experience increases ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A stretch of Interstate 70 westbound into Kansas City has been closed while crews assess damage from a fire that killed a homeless person.
In 1910, a series of large and devastating fires in northern Idaho and western Montana collectively burned three million acres (1.2 million ha) and killed 85 people, inflaming concerns about fires. By 1911, the newly established U.S. Forest Service had been expanded to bolster the agency's ...
A few weeks ago a teacher came into my office and said,“I know we aren’t suppose to talk about anything on the test, but the performance task my students just had to complete today was horrible.”It did not align with the Common Core “Standard” for her grade level, and the reada...
Yet the fire disasters that we’re seeing today are less wildland fires than urban fires, wildfire expert Jack Cohen said. Shifting this understanding could lead to more effective prevention strategies. “The assumption is continually made that it’s the big flames” that cause widespread community...