Consider California, the state's forests are overgrown in part because of past federal policies of putting out wildfires rather than letting them burn.以加州为例，该州的森林植物茂盛，部分原因是过去的联邦政策是扑灭野火，而不是让它们燃烧。Some of these policies were enacted in response to a devast...
And the hot, dry conditions here in the Lone Star State make us particularly susceptible.In many cases, forces of nature such as lightning are responsible for wildfires. However, most wildfires are the result of human negligence.Get our free mobile app What are the most common causes of ...
A tower logging crew operates on the fire-damaged slopes of our Clackamas tree farm in Oregon. Across the state, we’ve logged about two-thirds of our planned salvage harvest. The bulk of the remaining work is expected to finish next year. A MONUMENTAL EFFORT “In mid-Octob...
Forestry officials also said firefighters and equipment from the Douglas Forest Protection Association were among those sent. The teams will join their Oregon State Fire Marshal counterparts who are already there. Officials say the teams were set to begin work Monday for about two weeks in ...
The Great Fire (Oregon) A single fire in 1845 destroyed as much land as was burned during the entire 2008 California wildfire season. The Great Fire ravaged 1.5 million acres in northern Oregon, ripping through downtown Portland just two years after it officially became a city. The flamessprea...
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....
in containing theEaton FireandPalisades Fire, both still raging in different parts of the county, and other crews from Canada were said to be en route, the United States received an offer for support from all the way in Eastern Europe."Today, I instructed Ukraine's Minister of Internal ...
Today, for the first time in over a month we've had rain so we are in the Good Range now. "Bad"-ness is going to be relative. It may be worse in one area of the park and if you travel to another it might be fine. Smoke will likely lift out at times and then sink back in...
More than two dozen fires also were burning in the Pacific Northwest and Idaho, where lightning ignited more blazes in Oregon over the weekend amid extremely dry and hot conditions. The largest blazes were active in rural areas of eastern Oregon and Washington, and smoke was impacting air qualit...
“Chief Moore, victims in New Mexico are watching us today. What do you have to say to them?” Seeing the devastation in New Mexico and in other areas wrecked by wildfire, Moore said his heart bleeds and that his employees are moving ahead with treatment projects. The New Mexico fire ...