The president is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is ...

The new research found managing low-severity fires across 1 million acres a year could reduce the amount of land that burned ...

Studying the scale and intensity of previous fires can help us to detect thermal hotspots earlier and support faster, smarter ...

After years of questionable policies, climate change and growing populations, wildfires have gotten worse in the western U.S., and around the world. That’s driven a push to use tools like thinning and ...

Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

CAL FIRE announce the availability of $4.5 million in California Climate Investments funding and $3 million in Prop 4 funding ...

Sierra hotshot crew member lighting a test burn in Inyo National Forest, approximately one mile east of Mammoth Lakes, CA. on October 3, 2023. (USDA Forest Service photo by Lisa Cox) Every dollar ...

Diminishing periods of snow cover in northern forests, shortened by climate change, are poised to disrupt a delicate balance in some of the planet's most climate-sensitive regions—according to new ...

In this paper we introduce a new large-scale hyperspectral satellite image dataset named OHID-FF, specifically designed for forest fire detection and classification tasks. The OHID-FF dataset ...

State and federal fire officials have unveiled a new plan to boost wildfire prevention, even as California funding sources are drying up.

President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West ...