http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. 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/issues/320/16242 The National Fire Plan, the Healthy Forests Initiative and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act are explained and compared No publisher Kathie Durbin Logging Fire National Fire Plan Healthy Forests Initiative Healthy Forests Restoration Act Western Governors’ Association Bush administration Congress logging fire prevention thinning John Kitzhaber Dirk Kempthorne firefighting buget categorical exclusion 2011-11-11T19:59:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.17/good-policy-and-good-intentions-wont-stop-big-destructive-wildfires Federal agencies have made strides in reducing fire danger in the West's forests, but many factors hinder their efforts No publisher Jodi Peterson wildfires Las Conchas Fire firefighting climate change Obama environmental policy forest management Forest Service Wallow Fire forest fires drought firefighters Bill Armstrong Don Falk 2011-10-17T15:00:30Z 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/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/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/341/16881 Gail Kimbell and the vanishing Forest Service budget; not saying the Pledge in Mesa, Ariz.; racing old beaters in California; talkative men’s rooms; saying it (the Miranda warning, that is) with flowers. No publisher Betsy Marston Western odd news Arizona Humor David Obey Congress Ari Gail Kimbell war protests town council Bush budget 2008 war selling off public lands Forest Service Pledge of Allegiance firefighting budget cuts forest thinning Iraq Tom Rawles Mesa 2010-08-17T23:28:34Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.10/california-prepares-for-the-next-burn Public officials – and even homeowners – are beginning to accept the inevitability of wildfires in the Golden State. No publisher Peter Friederici wildfire wildland-urban interface California firefighting 2010-02-05T09:58:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17111 The West is on fire; Dick Cheney exposed; toning down RS-2477; and firefighting statistics No publisher Jonathan Thompson death causes Western wild fires firefighting roads Forest fires Dick Cheney RS-2477 2010-07-21T21:39:06Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/280/14946 Forest Service fire liaison busted for tossing cigarette butts; Interior decorator Gale Norton; horse slasher; cell phones vs. snakes; neighborhood with the slurry on top; tough on crime at Yellowstone; and Bonner County, Idaho, is quiet No publisher Betsy Marston Humor Western odd news Paige Rocket Willow Fire criminal littering Gale Norton Jessica Simpson Dawn Barkman cell phones rattlesnakes Izzy Effler Morgan Beadwell Rusty Juhnke slurry firefighting St. George Utah Hope Clarke Yellowstone 2010-02-05T09:20:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14840 Firefighting fisherman; Denver’s dangerous principal; peregrine falcons and bridges; San Francisco’s parrots; jaguar gets the finger in Albuquerque No publisher Betsy Marston Humor Western odd news Clifford Pirch firefighting fishermen fishing stories Bromley East Charter School school drills Robert Bair peregrine falcons bridges San Francisco parrots Mark Bittner Telegraph Hill Rio Grande Zoo Manchas the jag 2010-02-05T09:58:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14826 Citing safety concerns, the federal government has canceled contracts for 33 privately owned large air tankers, usually used to fight Western wildfires No publisher Dan Wilcock Fire Forest fires wildfires firefighting air tankers National Transportation Safety Board plane crashes Forest Service Interior Department Ann Veneman Janet Napolitano Federal Aviation Administration 2010-02-05T09:57:53Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/277/14818 Land managers have been talking about letting more wildfires burn, but the recent blowup of the Peppin Fire near Capitan, N.M. – home of Smokey Bear – leads to renewed talk of aggressive fire suppression No publisher Adam Burke Fire Smokey Bear Capitan Mountains New Mexico Peppin Fire Lincoln National Forest wildfires fire policy firefighting Forest Service National Interagency Fire Center 2010-02-05T09:57:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14318 A Season of Fire: Four Months on the Firelines of America’s Forests by Douglas Gantenbein refuses to glamorize firefighting or settle for simple solutions to the West’s fire problems No publisher Ali Macalady Fire forest fires wildfires firefighting firefighters A Season of Fire Douglas Gantenbein national forests fire policy 2010-02-05T10:14:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/260/14316 In Fire and Ashes: On the Front Lines of American Wildfire, John N. Mclean leads readers through sweaty-palmed human encounters with Western wildfires No publisher Joshua Zaffos Fire Forest fire wildfires firefighting firefighters John N. Mclean Norman Mclean Fire and Ashes Young Men and Fire Mann Gulch fire Sadler Fire Rattlesnake Fire 2010-02-05T10:14:01Z News Article