A desolate Oregon landscape offers lessons on the modern wild.
Wildfire
Researchers discovered recently burned areas emit more methane gas than the rest of the landscape.
Geologists in Washington are monitoring scorched forest to help create a better warning system for deadly debris flows.
Indigenous land stewards say cultural fires are key to building a fire-resilient landscape.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Don’t count on wildfires to alter how counties plan development in fire-prone zones.
Nationally, nearly a third of homes built since 2000 are in wildland areas.
Why suppressing wildfires costs public land agencies so much money.
Reminiscing on a half-century in the forest.
The state is grappling with more fires and fewer fighters where they need them.
Under potentially ‘new normal’ fire conditions, 80,000 people have been evacuated.
In California and across the region, drought and heat makes for big blazes.
Cutting down dead trees may not reduce wildfire risk.
As the aerial technology increases in popularity, so do its impacts.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
A former fire dispatcher says last year’s fire season pushed firefighters to the edge.
Listen to HCN reporters discuss this long-standing institutional problem.
As the park prepped for President Obama’s visit, experts hope to highlight a park in flux.
In California, Arizona and New Mexico, an underperforming weather pattern increased wildfire risk.
Wyoming fires revealed long hidden historical artifacts.
Women in the male-dominated world of wildland firefighting still face harassment, abuse and sexism.
A new collaboration seeks to ease wildfire’s impacts by thinning overgrown forests.
In much of California, Arizona and New Mexico El Niño and La Niña have combined to create dry fuels, ready to burn.
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