United States spent nearly a century extinguishing almost every forest fire, but scientists now say the policy left forests primed for today's larger and more destruct…

For many years, forest management followed a simple, widely accepted rule. Whenever a fire broke out in the woods, it would ...
WTIP

Firefighters continue suppression efforts on seven Superior National Forest wildfires

Fire officials with the Superior National Forest are continuing to monitor and suppress seven wildfires reported on Tuesday ...
Mother Jones

How Prescribed Burns Can Help Save Taxpayers Billions

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. According to a study published today in the journal Science, every dollar that the ...
AZ Central

After Grand Canyon fire, forest experts say managed burns still needed

A wildfire destroyed a historic lodge at the Grand Canyon's North Rim and some political leaders want to know if the fire was mismanaged. One fire expert said officials should approach policy changes ...
University of California

Prescribed burning helps store forest carbon in big, fire-resistant trees

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...
The Conversation

Fighting every wildfire ensures the big fires are more extreme, and may harm forests’ ability to adapt to climate change

In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly suppressing fires has had ...
Cascadia Daily News

Century of fire suppression turned state forests into kindling; Washington is correcting course

Until recently, the Washington state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) relied on extinguishing natural fires to manage ...