by Web Editor | Jan 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Six former chiefs of the Forest Service have written leaders of the U.S. House and Senate expressing the urgent need to establish a new method of funding wildland firefighting. The Forest Service and Department of Interior, they said, are alone among federal agencies...
by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2017 | News, News/PR
In 1995, the U.S. Forest Service spent 16 percent of its total budget on fighting fires. Today, it’s 52 percent and growing. What’s changed? “Everything,” said Matthew Thompson, a research forester who works at the agency’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort...
by Web Editor | Jul 28, 2017 | News, News/PR
The West Virginia Division of Forestry sent a crew of 20 men to help fight wildfires in the Rocky Mountains. The group of 14 state foresters and six volunteer firefighters took off for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today, where they will meet four more crews before jetting...
by Web Editor | Apr 19, 2017 | News, News/PR
It was risky, Paul Summerfelt concedes, to ask voters for an unprecedented $10 million bond issue for forest and watershed restoration. But the greater risk was to do nothing – to wait for the inevitable wildfire that damaged, or destroyed, the city of Flagstaff’s...
by Web Editor | Mar 31, 2017 | News, News/PR
Summer 2012 was quickly becoming the hottest and driest part of one of the hottest and driest years in Wyoming’s recorded history. Wildfires ravaged forests and grasslands in nearly every portion of the state. Temperatures were in the triple digits. Portions of...