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Aggressive Fire Suppression Leaves West A Tinderbox, Making Mega-Fires Worse
Dry conditions are dangerous in this season of devastating wildfires. Twenty-one large fires are burning across the West. None are as bad as the recent Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado, which left two people dead…
Seasonal Wildland Firefighters Given Federal Health Benefits
President Barack Obama will make federal health insurance available to about 8,000 temporary wildland firefighters, a White House official said recently. Despite the grueling and dangerous work they do, the 8,000 firefighters aren’t covered by…
U.S. Declares The Largest Natural Disaster Area Ever Due To Drought
The blistering summer and ongoing drought conditions have the prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to declare a federal disaster area in more than 1,000 counties covering 26 states. That’s almost one-third of all the counties…
New Online Tool Supports Fight Against Illegal Logging
The World Resources Institute (WRI) recently announced the launch of the Forest Legality Risk Information Tool, an open-access global information website designed to assist purchasers of forest products in securing fiber from legal sources. The…
Oregon Timber Harvest Up 13%, Still Below Historic Levels
Oregon’s annual timber harvest jumped 13% in 2011, reaching 3.65 billion board feet. Large private forest owners, taking advantage of a continued hot export market to China and elsewhere, accounted for two-thirds of the harvest…
NASA Partners With Forest Service To Highlight Wildfires, Science
NASA and the U.S. Forest Service signed a Space Act Agreement recently that unites the two agencies in raising awareness about the importance of fire prevention and fire safety. This partnership will highlight areas of…
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