Interior Secretary calls for active forest management
On former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s last day in office, he signed a secretarial order calling for the department to do more to prevent wildfire on its ...
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Great gray owls unfazed by California megafire
After California’s Rim Fire burned through Yosemite National Park and Stanislaus National Forest in 2013, managers wondered what impact it had on wildlife in the ...
Forest management legislation encourages thinning and burns
Forest thinning provisions championed by House Republicans did not make it into the final Farm Bill, but Rep. Westerman, R-Ark., made one more attempt to advance ...
Surveying for Survivors
Santa Rosa, California is well known for vineyards, arts and culture. But the locals know that one of the many benefits the city has to offer is outdoor recreation. ...
Best Friends Forever – from The Wildlife Professional
It’s late fall in the high mountains of western North America and the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests are alive with activity. Birds and mammals are ...
BLM conducts emergency roundup of feral horses in Nevada
The Bureau of Land Management has completed an emergency capture of more than 1,000 feral horses in Northern Nevada. Officials said they gathered 1,178 horses and ...
Mixed severity fire best for birds in Sierra Nevada
Like Goldilocks, birds prefer it just right when it comes to severity and time after wildfires, researchers found. Some like it hot. Some not so much. To ...
Forest Service, Congress discuss wildfire
Both the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands convened during the first week of June to discuss prospects for ...
Congress works to address growing concern over wildfires
This year nearly 52,700 wildfires have already burned over 8.8 million acres. The recent, devastating fires in California led to 23 deaths, burned 245,000 acres, ...
Valles Caldera National Preserve: Ecological jewel and super volcano
Sitting at 8,500 feet in the remote Jemez Mountains less than two hours from downtown Albuquerque, the Valles Caldera National Preserve sweeps across thousands of ...