FIRE IS A NATURAL PART of Western ecosystems, and many forest species crave its disturbance and the resulting regeneration. But starting in the mid-to-late 1800s, the federal government banished ...

Anna Kaye’s latest exhibit at the Denver Botanic Gardens studies how Colorado’s wildfires are both devastating yet necessary.

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.