by Web Editor | Aug 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to scale back some projects designed to help prevent wildfires so that it can meet the expenses of fighting this summer’s round of fires. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday that about $400 million to $500...
by Web Editor | Aug 3, 2012 | News, News/PR
Wildfires are fast-moving targets, so one of the most important weapons firefighting teams can have is timely, precise information about where the fire is, where it’s likely to spread and what’s in its path. In the past couple of years, firefighters have...
by Web Editor | Jun 8, 2012 | News, News/PR
While the number of wildfires around the country goes up every year, the amount of money the federal government is shelling out to fight those fires is getting cut by a lot. The head of the U.S. Forest Service, Chief Tom Tidwell, was in Albuquerque Tuesday and flew...
