Fires in California, Oregon, and Washington continue to burn out of control, with smoke traveling thousands of miles to other states. These California wildfire maps let you track the Apple fire and smoke forecasts in real time Here's how you can track the size and location of the Apple wild...
In California, as the weather remains hot and dry this week, fire officials are issuing warnings about the use of fireworks, which are illegal in several counties. At least two brush fires in the Bay Area may have been caused by illegal fireworks in the past few days. In San Francisco, ...
Data for the map of current fires comes from a combination of data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, and the National Interagency Fire Center. CalFire's fire data only includes fires more than 10 acres within its jurisdiction. The information, according...
A great trek up to one of the last stone lookout stations in the state, built in the early 1930s.
Gold Hill to Tidbits Mountain Willamette National Forest 3.9·Moderate·13.8 km·Est. 4h 44m Twin Buttes Trail Willamette National Forest 3.2·Moderate·3.4 km·Est. 1h 41m Tidbits Mountain Western Approach Willamette National Forest 3.5·Moderate·4.5 km·Est. 1h 42m ...
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Washington, constituent state of the U.S. Lying in the northwest corner of the 48 conterminous states, it is bounded by Canada to the north, Idaho to the east, Oregon to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Olympia is the state’s capital, and S
Table 4. Proportion of ignition points (in percentages) that lead to different sizes of fires for each weather scenario. The FS quantitative results show that 20.3% to 22.3% of the ignition points, depending on the scenario considered, do not generate a wildfire, as they do not have suffic...
, selected as controlling factors for the landslide occurrence, were statistically correlated with the spatial distribution of slope failures. The generated model was validated by using historical landslide data, field-verified slope failures and a methodology developed by the Oregon Department of ...
Varied other occurrences include volcanoes, and earthquake activity around the Pacific Basin, tsunamis, and forest fires in the western portion of the country. In northern Alaska there is permafrost, which is a major impediment to development. ...