California authorities say the sweeping DOGE staffing cuts at the U.S. Forest Service will mean fewer prescribed burns leading into this year's wildfire season. Here's why that scares them.

Kelly Ramsey fought California's first gigafire as a member of a Hotshot crew in the state. Her new memoir chronicles her ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Parks and Recreation staff will conduct a controlled burn of about 65 acres at the western end of the Pioneers Park Nature Center near the bison viewing area from 11 a.m. to ...

A controlled burn caused smoke conditions visible in the Midvalley and Upvalley Monday afternoon. The controlled burn is being done by the state Game Commission on state gamelands, according to ...

Smoke may be visible around Anchorage in the coming days as controlled burning got underway Monday on the Hillside, between Hilltop Ski Area and the Prospect Heights Trailhead. State fire ...

WINNABOW, NC. (WECT) - Orton Plantation will conduct a prescribed controlled burn on 109 acres of land on April 30. According to Orton, the burn is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and end around 5 p.m.

“It's really difficult to do prescribed burns in Colorado ... fires burn longer and with greater intensity,” M.R. O’Connor wrote in her book, “Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World.” As climate ...

area has been on the books for the last six years and has kind of fallen ... They have also identified another potential prescribed burn for this fall, just south of Forest Crowne, on St. Mary's Lake ...

Smoke billows up as a U.S. Forest Service employee drives a quad fitted with a drip torch in April 2024. A 450-acre prescribed burn in the Deschutes National Forest west of Bend kicked up a ...

Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — The Rapid City Fire Department is on day two of a prescribed burn inside city limits on the south side of town. Rapid City has a lot of wooded areas mixed in with urban ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Lincoln Parks and Recreation staff will conduct a controlled burn beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday in Wilderness Park. The controlled burn will taken place in about 20 acres ...

Edmonton conducted its first-ever prescribed burn within city limits on Wednesday to mitigate wildfire risk. According to the city, the number of outdoor fires that the Edmonton Fire Rescue ...