http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/wotr/fighting-fire-and-memories A seasoned Forest Service firefighter remembers Colorado's South Canyon Fire and the lives lost in it 16 years ago. No publisher Mary Emerick wildfires fire deaths Forest Service firefighters South Canyon fire Storm King Mountain forest fires 2010-06-11T14:12:08Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15925 Sen. Larry Craig’s suggestion that New Orleans’ 9th Ward be restored as a wetland may represent a newfound respect for the power of nature and the limits of the human ability to control it No publisher Rocky Barker Forests Fires Congress Larry Craig New Orleans 9th Ward hurricane damage Hurricane Katrina wetlands restoration forest fires Yellowstone fires wildfires fire suppression Forest Service National Academy of Sciences Forest Commission Gifford Pinchot John Muir Hurric 2010-02-05T08:31:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15953 In Scorched Earth, journalist Rocky Barker describes firsthand the chaos and consequences of the Yellowstone fires No publisher Gary Wockner Fire Rocky Barker Scorched Earth Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone fires wildfires forest fires Forest Service fire policy Idaho Falls Post-Register Idaho Statesman High Country News forest ecosystems fire ecology Don Despain Bob Barbee 2010-02-05T08:31:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-future-of-big-fires-and-tiny-bugs A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father. No publisher Frank Carroll grazing reform bark beetles climate change forest rangers overgrown forests global warming fire prevention New Mexico Blue River country forest management Frank Carroll Forest Service childhoods National Forest Service forest fires Western landscape drought rural Western life 2012-04-17T18:47:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.16/fire-scientists-fight-over-what-western-forests-should-look-like Controversial new studies question the conventional wisdom on Western ponderosa forests and the severity of their historic wildfires. No publisher Emily Guerin wildfire megafires forest fires firefighting Hot Times Thomas Swetnam Southwest model fire regimes Wally Covington Tom Swetnam 2012-10-16T23:26:45Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-san-francisco-peaks-will-never-be-the-same An abandoned campfire is apparently to blame for the inferno now consuming the mountains outside Flagstaff, Ariz. No publisher Robyn Slayton-Martin wildfires campers campfire danger forest fires drought San Francisco Peaks 2010-06-29T15:53:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/why-the-southwest-is-burning This season’s wildfires are caused by three things: Climate change-induced drought, bureaucratic blindness and old-fashioned human folly. No publisher William deBuys wildfire Hot Times Western wildfires climate change denial Forest Service Wallow fire forest fires drought firefighting, 2011-10-10T18:38:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/359/17381 Lincoln Bramwell looks back on years of firefighting and concludes that it’s just not a good idea for people to keep building houses in forests. No publisher Lincoln Bramwell development Lincoln Bramwell urban firefighters interface forest fires 2010-08-09T21:51:24Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/363/17500 No publisher Alan S. Kesselheim forest fires firefighting camping Derby Mountain fire Alan S. Kesselheim 2011-02-14T22:50:38Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/366/17585 In his richly illustrated book Boy Wonder & the Big Burns, Montana photographer Chris Peterson finds beauty in the aftermath of fire – and in his relationship with his autistic son. No publisher Ray Ring Boy Wonder & the Big Burns Horse News photography Hungry autism Chris Peterson forest fires father and son relationship 2010-10-27T19:56:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/what-we-dont-admit-about-wildfire The West's inevitable wildfires have a terrible beauty. No publisher Michael Wolcott Coconino National Forest firefighters Western wildfires San Francisco Peaks Schultz Fire forest fires fire suppression 2010-09-22T17:16:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/monster-wildfires-have-become-the-new-normal Wildfires cannot be entirely prevented by logging or anything else, but small-scale prescribed burns can help make them less destructive. No publisher Roy Keene and Tim Hermach firefighting Western wildfires Biscuit Fire Bush Healthy Forests Initiative Forest Service Wallow Fire forest fires prescribed burns salvage logging 2011-06-21T18:34:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.13/the-fiery-touch Raymond Oyler is charged with murder and wildfire arson after five firefighters die in California's Esperanza Fire. No publisher John N. Maclean firefighter deaths Raymond Lee Oyler wildfire arson Esperanza Fire murder trials forest fires 2010-08-02T15:28:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.10/fire-fight-forest-service-finally-reveals-the-hazards-of-chemical-retardants The Forest Service finally assesses the impacts of fire retardant chemicals, but never answers the question of how useful they really are. No publisher Judith Lewis Mernit wildfires firefighting fire retardant chemicals Forest Service forest fires Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics 2011-06-15T14:09:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/nostalgia-for-the-front-lines A forest fire near her home in Alaska takes a former firefighter back 20 years, to the summers she spent battling blazes all across the West. No publisher Teresa Sundmark forest fires Seventeen Mile Fire firefighters summer jobs 2010-02-05T08:58:56Z News Article