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If we are to deal effectively with the forest fire issue it is imperative that we get the foundational data correct first so we can develop effective strategies to deal with this major threat to mankind.

What makes these fires bigger has a lot to do with how we've mismanaged the landscapes for the last 100 years. Fire suppression, changes in grazing patterns, loss of wetlands. We allow shrub lands and grasses to build up...

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.

SCIENCE®!!!! discovers what my dad (a civil engineer) taught me more than 50 years ago.

Meanwhile, has anyone seen a spotted owl lately?

 A shift away from managing for competitive forests and toward eliminating competition could allow the few to thrive and be more resilient.

. All the climate models could do is project imagined disasters in the future. Rarely does the media mention the grass/fire cycle, or the dryness of ENSO cycles. Instead NPR prefers to blame climate change for worse wildfires...

According to Joe Biden, the fires raging on the West Coast of the USA are a sign that climate change is an existential threat to our way of life. However Biden is ignoring decades of West Coast forest management failures.

Eliminate fuel, prevent ignition, stop arson, end irresponsible land management policies By Paul Driessen & Duggan Flanakin, “We are all born ignorant,” Benjamin Franklin once said, “but one must work very hard...

An international group of ecologists contests an article published in Science, which among other cardinal errors proposed ‘reforestation’ of the Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna biome Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa...

Researchers at the University of Bonn used drill cores to trace back the fires of the past 600,000 years – favorable climate induced growth promoting larger fuel loads was the biggest factor...

From The Daily Wire ByEmily Zanotti @emzanotti TRUMP WAS RIGHT: Jerry Brown Eased California Logging Rules Back In August Months ago, California Gov. Jerry Brown urged state lawmakers to loosen restrictive logging regulations...

Dramatic swooping roofs top this new timber-clad building designed by Studio Weave for Belvue School, a secondary school for children aged between 11 and 19 with moderate to severe learning difficulties...

After decades of conflict over the power to oversee Indonesia's forests, President Joko Widodo gave management rights back to nine indigenous communities...

Sometimes even the best laid plans go awry. Despite being the first state in the United States to make cutting greenhouse gas emissions mandatory, California's forests are betraying those efforts by pumping out more carbon...