The Santa Barbara County Fire Department plans to conduct a prescribed burn this fall for strategic wildland fuel reduction purposes north of Los Olivos on Figueroa Mountain Road.

The Texas A&M Forest Service is helping landowners prevent wildfires through a Mechanical Fuel Reduction grant.

Below-average rain levels and hot temperatures lay ahead in Southern California as the region prepares for peak fire season, ...

Forest fuel reduction projects happening throughout the Tahoe Basin this year are using a tool known as mastication around ...

A sawyer with Ascent Forestry works on a fuel reduction project at Anthony Chabot Regional Park on ... “You can’t prevent ignitions in the wildland-urban interface. They’re just there.

Strategic fuels-reduction projects in high-risk wildland areas and open space in urban communities. Strict enforcement of defensible space requirements around structures is a critical and yet ...

A warming climate has made it more challenging to deal with wildfires by extending the number of days they can occur and leading to faster-growing larger fires that can have major impacts on air ...

The division focuses its fuel-reduction efforts in areas where homes meet forested land, known as the wildland-urban interface. These zones, identified in the county’s wildfire plan, are particularly ...

After around four years of planning, discussion and assessment, the town of Vail and the United States Forest Service are now moving toward implementation of a much-anticipated 3,000-acre fuels ...

The Deschutes River Woods Wildfire Fuels Mitigation Project is part of a three-year Oregon State Fire Marshal Community Wildfire Risk Reduction grant awarded to Deschutes County Rural Fire ...

The Deschutes National Forest has opened up a comment period for the public to weigh in on a large-scale fuels reduction project that will treat 153,000 acres of public land in the Cascades.

Biologists conduct testing to make decisions about prescribed burns and fuel reduction planning. "We are here today to pull the fire alarm, and we're gonna set off some sirens," she said.