The U.S. House of Representatives voted May 20 to ease bureaucratic obstacles to forest-thinning activities on 20 million acres of the nation’s most fire-prone federal lands. The bill has the backing ...
LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team forest thinning projects are underway in the Lake Tahoe Basin. These projects are expected to continue for the next several weeks with some projects ...
Western forests are still burning too infrequently for their own good, a finding that may seem paradoxical to Arizonans anticipating a dangerous fire year after a drought-plagued winter. New research ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You might appreciate snowpack as something to sled, ski, or snowboard on. But beyond the slopes, vast masses of snow melt as ...
As the West faces increasingly destructive wildfires, land managers rely on mechanical thinning to reduce hazardous fuels and restore forest health. But one obstacle continues to slow this work down: ...
LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Forest health is a top priority of the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program (EIP), a landscape-scale collaboration and partnership between nearly 80 public and ...
Forest thinning increases water supplies downstream while reducing wildfire risk, according to a study conducted by Salt River Project and Arizona State University. Land managers and scientists knew ...
A new study from the U.S. Forest Service concludes extensive forest-thinning treatments are the most effective way to reduce intense wildfires in the western United States. Every summer, crown fires ...
But the park’s forest ecologist saw plenty of good news when he inspected the Washburn Fire early last week: A forest-thinning project that had removed trees and dense undergrowth was helping tame ...
A few weeks ago, the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project held a meeting in Sisters extolling the virtues of forest thinning and prescribed burning. However, the context for such happy talk was ...
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What the grim outlook for Alpine Ash forests tell us about forestry dogma (commentary)
By Chris TaylorDavid LindenmayerPhil Zylstra In March, the Australian Government announced that the Alpine Ash forests of ...
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