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  • Practical pyromania: A review of The Flamer

    Practical pyromania: A review of The Flamer

    In his new novel, Ben Rogers tells the coming-of-age story of a young Nevada boy named Oby Brooks who just loves to blow things up.

    by Jenny Shank, Aug 05, 2012

  • Keepers of the Flame

    Black Range District Fire Manager Toby Richards is returning fire to its natural place on New Mexico’s Gila National Forest – and leading the charge for Fire Use in the West.

    by Adam Burke, Nov 08, 2004

  • Fire managers play a subtle new game

    Forest Service fire manager Brent Skaggs worries that the Framework's new burning restrictions won't allow the amount of controlled burning he believes necessary to prevent catastrophic wildfires.

    by Jim Downing, Aug 27, 2001
  • A life measured in cordwood: A review of Into the Heat: My Love Affair with Trees, Fire, Saws and Men

    A life measured in cordwood: A review of Into the Heat: My Love Affair with Trees, Fire, Saws and Men

    Cindy Bellinger's memoir, Into the Heat: My Love Affair with Trees, Fire, Saws and Men, introduces us to a determined, 60-something, chainsaw-wielding Western woman.

    by Gussie Fauntleroy, Feb 19, 2012

  • Collaboration may prevent conflagration in SantaFe

    The Santa Fe Watershed Partners Group is working with the Santa Fe National Forest to find an environmentally sensible way to thin and burn a New Mexico forest that has become a fire hazard.

    by Bryan Foster, Mar 18, 2002

  • Where there's fire, there's global warming

    Climate scientist Anthony Westerling is working to illuminate the connection between rising global temperatures and the increasing ferocity of the West’s forest fires

    by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006

  • National Fire Plan vs. the Healthy Forests rule changes

    The National Fire Plan, the Healthy Forests Initiative and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act are explained and compared

    by Kathie Durbin, Apr 17, 2006

  • Burning down the house

    Despite the promises of the Healthy Forests Act, the Bush administration has proposed sweeping cuts to community fire programs in the West

    by Sarah Gilman, May 01, 2006

  • The War on Wildfire

    President Bush says the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and Initiative were needed to fight wildfire, but several years into the new rules, critics question whether the changes they brought were helpful or even necessary

    by Kathie Durbin, Apr 17, 2006

  • Whatever happened to letting fires burn?

    The writer suggests that Westerners learn to live with fires rather than suppressing them.

    by George Wuerthner, May 09, 2011
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