This article originally published at Forest Service lags on prescribed burns after Calif. loses 600-year-old trees to wildfire. To accomplish this feat, the team used fishing rods, long slotted spoons ...

That devastation — and the federal and state dollars it burns through in suppression and prevention costs — has caught the ...

Governor Newsom issues an executive order to expand California's use of beneficial fire techniques for wildfire prevention.

A new wildfire was reported today at 11:20 a.m. in Placer County, California. Marall Fire has been burning on federal land ...

The Northwest Forest Plan has long protected vulnerable species like spotted owls in federal forests along the West Coast.

Most of the state received more than average precipitation in October — twice normal in many places, four times normal in San ...

A team of researchers has mapped the tree canopies at public schools across California. What they've found so far is that ...

In California, summer could be on the chopping block. Almost 4,000 campsites across many of California’s 18 national forests could close for part or all of the summer season, according to an internal ...

Wild gray wolves have killed dozens of livestock in the Sierra Nevada mountains in recent months, prompting California ...

ALTURAS, Calif. -- A U.S. Forest Service firefighter from South Dakota has been killed battling one of more than a dozen wildfires raging across California, Forest Service officials said Friday night.