Last week my location was blanketed by smoke from forest fires in northern Quebec, with the air quality index pegged as high as it goes (which is to say, eleven). The iPhone’s default weather app has an air quality map that I made use of—you could actually see the fire hotspots—...
Northern California crews respond to help with fast-moving Mountain Fire in Southern California Forest Service to hold Women in Wildfire training camp in Northern California Dutch Fire forward progress stopped after prompting evacuations in Placer, Nevada counties UC Davis finds connection between wi...
Firefighters are battling multiple wildfires across California, as seen on this map from Tuesday, June 18, 2024.CalFire Windy conditions and an overall dip in humidity over parts of California combined to create the arid and blustery conditions that allow fires to rapidly spread, the National Weat...
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...
high total citation time in WOS, where US Forest Service (832), Oregon State University (291), Northern Arizona University (217), Colorado State University (210), US Geological Survey (190), University of California Berkeley (190), and Natural Resources Canada (190) ranked in the top five....
For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past.
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"Camp Fire" now considered deadliest in California history The Butte County sheriff's office said 13 more bodies have been discovered Monday, bringing the death toll from the "Camp Fire" to 42 in Northern California. It's now considered the deadliest wildfire in California's history. ...
The threat of winds tearing down power lines or hurling debris into them and sparking a wildfire prompted Pacific Gas & Electric, the state's largest utility, to shut off power to 172,000 customers in Northern California last weekend. More outages were expected Wednesday, with power not expecte...
A recent example is the North Complex Fire in 2021 that burned adjacent to the Camp Fire of 2018 in northern California. In such cases, older gradient nearest neighbor data would not be adequate to represent pre-burn carbon pools if the area had not recovered completely to pre-burn ...