High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S. Researchers quantified the value of managed low-intensity burning to dramatically reduce the risk of such fires for years at a time. By Rob Jordan, Stanford Woods Institute of...
By Benjamin Cossel, Stanislaus National Forest If they’d only known. Back in the 1850s, miners in the Sierra Nevada gold-rush town of Sonora, California created a connected system of ditches, wooden flumes and pipes to move water. Sierra snowpack melted...
California’s forests are facing a growing threat: wildfires. The severity and frequency of these fires are on the rise, fueled by poor fire management practices, prolonged drought, and bark beetle infestation. These factors are only worsened by the changing climate,...
Fire officials are bracing for the worst as scientists predict that climate change could cause more lightning strikes, which often ignite deadly, unpredictable and remote wildfires in Northern California. By Julie Cart This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign...
When wildfires burn in the west, their heat and airborne particles inflict stronger rain and larger hail upon central states By Brendan Bane, Pacific Northwest National Lab A new study shows for the first time that wildfires burning in West...
