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California's Wildfires

Stay informed on ongoing fire devastation and restoration, see the wide-reaching impacts of California’s worsening wildfires, and discover centuries-old Indigenous practices that may offer a path forward for living and working with fire.

Smoke from wildfires engulfs the valley. | From "The West is Burning"

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The U.S. Forest Service has issued a tentative decision on its controversial plan to log tens of thousands of acres of forest burned in 2013's Rim Fire, and that decision will not please wildlife preservationists.
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More than 250,000 acres of Sierra Nevada forest land burned in the 2013 Rim Fire is turning out to be pretty good habitat for California spotted owls, and a group of wildlife protection organizations is asking the U.S. Forest Service to rethink plans t...
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Plans to log over 5,000 acres of burned trees in the Tahoe and Sierra national forests poses a serious threat to wildlife that depends on burned over forests. That's according to two environmental groups that sued the U.S. Forest Service Thursday to st...
Some of the female inmates at Camp 13. | Photo: Lata Pandya
Malibu is known for palatial houses, celebrity sightings, and gorgeous ocean views, but drive away from the coast and up into the Santa Monica Mountains and you'll find that it is home to something else: a sense of redemption.
The Old Fire burning above the city of Highland in October 2003.
Collaboration in the San Bernardino National Forest may help restore burned-over lands.
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According to reports provided by California's electrical power grid operator, the world's largest concentrating solar power plant spent a lot of its first month online being, well, not online.
A helicopter drops water on the Waldo Fire in Colorado on June 27, 2012.
Let's hope Colorado's inaction on fire-prevention legislation doesn't turn the Centennial State into a funeral pyre.
The Soda Fire burning in Sequoia National Forest at 1:23 p.m. today. | Webcam Photo: Courtesy U.S. Forest Service
"That's not normal," Stanton Florea said. "There's not much more that speaks to these dry conditions."
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"Salvage" logging poses a risk to a rare bird that relies on habitat created by forest fires.
Seven HC-130H planes like this one will be transferred from the Coast Guard to the Forest Service to use in fighting wildfires.
New airplanes and more money will bolster the Forest Service's wildland firefighting operations
The 2009 Station Fire burns behind a home in La Crescenta, CA.
Those living in wildland fire zones must build defensible space around their homes.
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Here's the scoop on selecting the right firewood.
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