Gov. Tina Kotek expressed condolences Friday to the family of a pilot of a single-engine air tanker that went down in forested terrain while fighting a separate fire near the town of Seneca and the Malheur National Forest. In Idaho, homes, outbuildings and a commercial building were among ...
“While the perpetrators may never be caught, looking at Sicily’s perceived, conceived, and lived space—urban and rural—in history and today might help answer the question: What does setting land on fire offer to the power dynamics found in Sicily today, and does it point toward the ...
Anthropogenic climate change is expected to catalyze forest conversion to grass and shrublands due to more extreme fire behavior and hotter and drier post-fire conditions. However, field surveys in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States show r
Now gaze back at the dam itself and try to imagine that Cabinet Gorge is not the first dam to stand where it stands today. Some 10,000 years ago, there was an ice dam somewhere near where you are standing. When it broke, it drained Lake Missoula, a vast inland sea that covered most...
Today is November 9. It’s time for us to learn a lot more about fire, especially what to do if we are caught in a fire: 1. Shout out If you smell smoke or see fire, shout out “Fire”! Shout as loudly as you can, because people may be asleep. 2. Call 119 Never try to ...
“Scoopers” include the Canadian Bombardier CL-215 and modern turbine powered, CL-415 today. There are some foreign competitors, but not yet certified by Interagency Airtanker Board (IAB) nor the Federal Aviation Administration. It has been many months since the makers of one of those planes...
President Biden will be in Idaho today touring the National Interagency Fire Center. Help us welcome the President to the Gem State by signing our card thanking him for his continued leadership! ➡️ https://t.co/M1Oi4dbCGQ #IdahoWelcomesBiden pic.twitter.com/NSX9JiC7Wf— Idaho ...
grazing in certain regions, particularly in the American Southwest, also influenced fire regimes through the removal of fine fuels that previously supported frequent surface fire (Guiterman et al.2019; Swetnam et al.2016). In 1910, a series of large and devastating fires in northern Idaho and ...
The traffic jam left some trapped in their cars when the fire overtook them;others who were near the ocean jumped in to escape. The reports also highlight a vulnerability rooted in the dramatic changes Maui experienced since the arrival of Westerners a...
Snags from the 1910 Big Burn which charred 3-3.5 million acres of Idaho and Montana long before anyone can suggest that fire suppression or lack of Indian burning led to fuel buildups. The 1910 Burn, like all large blazes, resulted from drought, high temperatures, low humidity and high wind...