and more than 3.3 million acres have burned across the state this year. Fire activity has been elevated since Aug. 15 in California, during which time 25 people have died, and more than 4,200 structures have been destroyed. In Oregon, more than 940,000 acres...
Wildfires raged across Northern California and southern Oregon in August. But thanks to a new map application, two local utilities were able to monitor and protect more than 16,000 miles of transmission lines that serve nearly two million customers.Esri...
, and Australia (612), in which the USA being the most central to this area of research in terms of collaborative networks. Figure 4b shows the top 10 institutions with the highest number of publications and high total citation time in WOS, where US Forest Service (832), Oregon State ...
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
So far, the 2018 fire season has produced a handful of big fires in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado; conflagrations in Oklahoma and Kansas; and a fire bust in Alaska, along with garden-variety wildfires from Florida to Oregon. Some of those fires are in rural areas, some are...
Specialized recruiting for moderated sessions yielded 2 participants with asthma and 3 participants who were affected by the Cedar Creek Fire, a wildfire smoke event that resulted in hazardous air quality levels in the town of Oakridge, Oregon in October 2022. Unmoderated sessions were administered ...
Some 370 structures destroyed, 57,000 in danger Hill Fire Location: Ventura County 4,531 acres burned 85 percent contained Wildfires tear through Northern, Southern California65 photos Oregon firefighters helping at California wildfires Firefighters have been sent from Oregon to help suppress th...
in Oregon. Our estimated value of carbon lost for this medium-sized (19,400 ha) fire is $187.2 million (2020 dollars), which highlights the significant role that wildfires can have in terms of carbon emissions and their associated cost. The emissions from this fire were equivalent to as ...
They put together their own thank-you in a YouTube video.“You guys don’t know how much you mean, all the support you guys give us, ’’ says Ron, a firefighter from Oregon, in the video. “Out of four years when I’ve been fighting fire, this is about the most hospitable(...