Wildland firefighters in North America and other parts of the world have seen rising temperatures transform fire behavior into dangerous feedback loops. A veteran 'hotshot' gives a glimpse of life on ...

Firefighters are working to contain the Ranch Fire burning roughly 20 miles southeast of Patagonia. The fire has already ...

As viewed in shaky social media posts, the new megafires that plague the Western United States are monstrous in their ...

Jordan Thomas’ “When It All Burns” is a tremendous book that deepened my understanding and appreciation not just of the men ...

Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa, along with Reps. Jimmy Panetta and Jeff Hurd, introduced H.R. 3300, the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2025, to ensure aerial fire retardant ...

A popular inquiry we receive at our Forest Service office in Ruidoso is: How to become one of the elite wildland firefighters known as Hotshots? To help answer that question for our visitors, I ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency, a move some former federal officials ...

Historical fiction, debut novels, memoirs, fantasy and non-fiction by California writers and visiting authors are in this ...

Due to more accurate mapping, the Butte Creek Fire that broke out over the weekend on the east side of the John Day River, 9 miles north of Clarno, has been downsized to about 1,776 acres.

Under the leadership of President Trump, we at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are letting foresters get back to work. At ...

Last week, I signed a memorandum that sets clear expectations about USDA’s approach to responding to wildfires and directs ...