Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

What’s the relationship between fires and forests? And how does that relationship shape current fire risk? History of fire and forest management Humans and fire have shaped the forests of the western US and western Canada since time immemorial.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Last week, Texas’s Windy Deuce Fire, one of several large fires that broke out in the state’s panhandle region, passed within a few miles of a nuclear weapons facility and necessitated an emergency evacuation of nonessential employees. million acres of land over the past six days. Wait, wildfires in February?!

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The head of one of the world's leading AI companies was fired for not being 'candid' with the board, then swiftly hired by one of the company's major shareholders, Microsoft

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 15, 2024

In a small Texas city, officials say land previously treated with a prescribed burn stopped the Windy Deuce Fire from entering neighborhoods. But the practice of intentionally burning excess vegetation has faced opposition from some private landowners.

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Yale E360

JUNE 3, 2021

From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds. Read more on E360 ?.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A new study adds to the evidence that forest clearing and the spread of agriculture affected the Earth’s atmosphere and temperature earlier than previously believed.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In this blog post, we summarize our research on how some local governments in California are regulating development in high fire areas. Placer County and Los Angeles County only approved limited amounts of housing units in Very High Fire Hazard Severity Areas. The first blog post (providing an overview of the issue) is here.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 3, 2022

For millennia, North American ecosystems benefited from fire, mostly set by Indigenous people. to reintroduce controlled burns to forests and grasslands and restore the role of fire in creating biodiverse landscapes. Read the full story at e360. Now, a movement is growing, particularly in the eastern U.S.,

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

All too many Californians have lost their homes, and even their lives, as fires have raced through exurbs, suburbs, and even portions of towns and cities over the past several years. A key issue that policymakers are wrestling with is the extent to which new development has increased the risk to people and property from fire in California.

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

When autumn rains roll in, dampening the soil and putting an end to the summer heat, Washington’s prescribed fire season really begins to heat up. This October, Washington’s leaders in prescribed fire came together across the state to take full advantage of the opportunity to put good fire to work on our lands.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

The latest seasonal outlook from the National Interagency Fire Center largely points to such a reprieve—at least for the next few months. According to the latest wildland fire outlook, most of the western United States is expected to experience either normal or below-normal fire activity between May and August this year.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The state has taken a range of steps to try and reduce development in the WUI (the wildland-urban interface): The state has mapped Very High Fire Severity Hazard Zones (VHFSHZ). This excludes the first major risk from WUI development – the risk caused by putting more people and property into high fire hazard areas.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Australia has had some horrendous fires, with blackouts as one consequences. The Black Summer fires burned over 30 million acres of land, causing 34 deaths directly and another 400 from the effects of smoke. In some ways, Australia has done better than California, with much less of a problem in terms of grid-originated fires.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This summer, the Earth Island Institute filed a lawsuit challenging active management projects in Yosemite National Park – those projects involve the cutting of trees to reduce the risk of fire (or that is the explanation of the National Park Service for the projects). Both climate change and fire suppression are anthropogenic.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the policy implications of our data for fire risk and housing. First, the state has enacted legislation that strongly encourages local governments to consider the fire risks in approving new development. The first blog post (providing an overview of the issue) is here. Paths forward.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Here’s Part 1 ) Estimates vary, but California, the US, and the world will need a lot of new solar and energy storage facilities and a lot of land to put them on. And the volume of renewable energy required requires significant new transmission, which creates even more land use conflict.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2021

In Arizona, the Rafael Fire , burning in the Prescott National Forest some 25 miles southwest of Flagstaff, grew to 36,000 acres since it was sparked on June 18 by lightning. Drought increases the risk of fire. Fires in river headwaters don’t just burn trees. New homes rise from the post-fire rubble in Talent, Oregon.

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Washington Nature

MAY 15, 2023

These fires threaten nature as well as nearby communities, their livelihoods, homes, and even health. These fires threaten nature as well as nearby communities, their livelihoods, homes, and even health. Now, we’re putting fire back to work.” Illustration by Erica Simek Sloniker / The Nature Conservancy.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2023

Kris Mayes campaigned on a promise to repeal a land lease that the state made with Fondomonte. In the this year’s budget, Congress allocated nearly one and a half billion dollars for post-fire recovery in New Mexico. That includes the small town of Las Vegas, just 12 miles from where the fire started.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2022

We have been keeping track of the number and location of extreme heat, flood, hurricane, and fire weather alerts that the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecasting Offices across the country issue to inform the public on what to do and keep us safe. Fire weather. What has Danger Season brought so far this year?

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Cle Elum Ridge in the Central Cascades serves as a “living laboratory” to explore cutting-edge forest health practices such as selective tree thinning, tree mastication, and prescribed fires. Since time immemorial Indigenous peoples have stewarded these lands, often setting beneficial forest fires to maintain a healthy ecosystem.

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Washington Nature

JULY 20, 2023

And, yes, locked away in old growth forests are indicators of a rich legacy—a time capsule of growth, decay, fire, water, flora, and fauna all in balance with one another. To do this, he and a dedicated team of foresters, scientists, land stewards, and community members have teamed up to restore the land. the old growth forest.

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Legal Planet

MAY 3, 2022

The report offers solutions to develop a sustainable market for the residual waste material generated by wildfire treatments on forested and other high fire risk lands. Once cut and stacked, this material risks burning in the next fire, creating additional carbon emissions and air pollution.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 5, 2023

A new study conducted by the Washington Department of Natural Resources and The Nature Conservancy sought to localize and improve understanding of the trailing edge forests in the eastern Cascades of Washington by mapping and characterizing their composition, structure, ownership, recent fire activity and climate vulnerability.

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Washington Nature

JULY 13, 2023

“‘You must always remember that fire has two sides. Fire can be used for good—like on your hearth or in ceremony. Your own heart fire is also a force for good. Fire can be good for the land, but it can also destroy. Sami was confused because the road offered a boundary for spreading fire.

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Washington Nature

MAY 10, 2021

Local fire professionals have come together in northeast Washington state in April and May to build skills and harness the power of fire for good in a Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX). Washington’s landscapes evolved with fire, and fire will always be part of the landscape here. Photo © Eric Kiehn.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Nearly a decade ago, The Nature Conservancy was able to “push the pause button” on development that threatened 48,000 acres of land owned and managed by Plum Creek Timber. These lands now make up the Central Cascades Forest—an important landscape for forest restoration and fire resilience for the communities of Roslyn, Ronald and Cle Elum.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

2 [PaEN] -- Natural Lands Adds 47 Acres To William Penn State Forest Zimmerman Natural Area In Berks County [PaEN] -- WeConservePA Now Accepting Nominations For Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award [PaEN] [Posted: October 19, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In early August, devastating fires in Maui spread quickly due to dry conditions and winds from a distant hurricane. Fire weather alerts were concentrated in the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest. By the end of July, Phoenix, AZ, had experienced 31 days in a row with at least 110°F.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The Army Corps finalizes a plan for a river diversion to rebuild land on the Louisiana coast. 140 million for replacing water treatment infrastructure damaged by the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon fire in New Mexico. Louisiana Land-Building. billion project to rebuild eroding land along the Louisiana coast. The Rundown.

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Washington Nature

JULY 10, 2023

By Anya Blaney Cody Desautel, Executive Director of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservations, brings vast experience as a leader, land steward, and forestry professional to The Nature Conservancy in Washington's board of directors, preserving the heritage of the state's forests for seven generations in the future.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2024

20 to 26 - 15 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Revolution Pipeline Land Slip; Brief Compressor Fire; Crypto Mining? 28 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Keystone Station Coal-Fired Power Plant In Armstrong County DEP Will Hold A Hearing Feb. What's That Pink Stuff?

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

October is typically peak prescribed fire season in Washington because rainfall early in the month ends wildfire season and provides the perfect window to conduct controlled, prescribed burns before the rainy season. In addition to reducing fuels so there are less severe wildfires, prescribed burns also lessen fires' impact on air quality.

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Frontiers

MARCH 15, 2022

Researchers have produced the first ever 30m (30 meter pixel) resolution global map of fire-induced forest loss. The study shows that one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019 was due to fires, which is higher than previous estimates. Typically, fires in primary tropical forests are very rare. The map as baseline.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 3, 2024

As we experience more frequent and more intense storms, fires, floods, and other events intensified by climate change, we must collectively take action to support nature and help communities plan ahead. Efforts to thin and burn prior to the wildfire made fire-fighting efforts more successful and safer to implement.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

The wildfire is located in the Marienville Ranger District of Allegheny National Forest and is burning on Forest Service and private land in the vicinity of River, Gregg Hill, and Millstone Roads. Wildland firefighters made significant progress fighting the fire through back burning operations on Thursday.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This “selective thinning” project will reduce fire risk, create healthy forests and support recreational access and natural habitat. The How Go Unit is a 340-acre experimental site near the towns of Roslyn, Cle Elum and Ronald and is part of the nearly 38,000 acres of Central Cascades Forest land managed by The Nature Conservancy.

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