Lightning-sparked flames raced through a roughly 3,000-acre tract of old-growth forest in the central Sierra Nevada during the Garnet Fire in September. Before this year, the Teakettle Experimental ...

I attended the University of Montana as an undergraduate back in the 1970s. I had many professors who I felt were exceptional. The common denominator in the teachings of all my professors was to look ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

A lightning-sparked wildfire in California’s Sierra National Forest burned Tuesday through a grove of giant sequoias and set some of the ancient towering trees on fire.Wildland firefighters with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Twenty years after the 2002 McNally fire scorched the Sierra, the forest shows dramatic recovery. Dead trees and ...