While Mikaela Balkind was working on her degree at the University of Washington in 2018, she was looking for a way to bridge her two interests in natural resource management and climate science. So ...

Feb. 17—A camp that prepared women to become wildland ... The U.S. Forest Service employs more than 11,000 people in its wildland fire program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Successfully fighting a wildfire requires more than people digging line or cutting fire breaks with chainsaws. It also ...

The Nevada Department of Corrections is seeking approval to close the Wells camp and relocate the prisoners held there, but they won’t train to fight fires while prisoner firefighter crews ...

17—A camp that prepared women to become wildland ... The U.S. Forest Service employs more than 11,000 people in its wildland fire program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture website ...

Several National Academies reports offer information and insights on ways to operate safely in burned environments for those who have been affected by wildfires.

introduced the “Fit for Purpose Wildfire Readiness Act,” which would combine the Forest Service and Interior Department’s efforts under a National Wildland ... a combined fire agency has ...

When I was a young man working as a U.S. Forest Service seasonal employee part of the job was wildland fire fighting ... in California was a big deal. Fire camps were established to feed and ...

After the bootcamp she began working on seasonal firefighting crews and is now pursuing a masters in Montana studying wildland fire science. “I can largely attribute the last five or six years ...

A camp that prepared women to become wildland firefighters has been paused because of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the ...