Research by a Ph.D. graduate from the biology department at The University of New Mexico finds that frequent fires have the potential to reduce tree water stress. Kevin Willson, a postdoctoral ...

Around-the-clock efforts are underway to protect giant Sequoias within the McKinley Grove that are being threatened by the raging wild fire burning nearby and continuing to grow in eastern Fresno ...

Federal foresters have finally determined what sparked Utah's largest wildfire nearly a decade.

U.S. Forest Service firefighters on Sunday found multiple trees that someone doused with accelerant and set on fire near the Pike-San Isabel National Forest.

Embers spat out by the Garnet Fire overnight Sunday ignited small fires that were still smoldering Wednesday in the high branches of several trees in a cherished grove of iconic giant sequoias in the ...

Across the western U.S., wildfires are becoming larger and more severe—and even trees that initially survive are dying in subsequent years, making it harder for forests to regenerate, according to new ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

When a wildfire is tearing through a conifer forest, the assumption is usually that trees are simply fuel, more vegetation means a bigger, faster moving fire. Two recent studies, one covering the ...

Learn how warmer air and decades of fuel buildup are turning California’s wildfires into increasingly destructive events.

The blaze was approaching the 2024 Bridge Fire burn scar, which ripped through the Angeles National Forest and threatened ...