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A fire first discovered earlier this month in the Wyoming Range is now at 90 percent containment.
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The Forest Corps, a new collaboration between AmeriCorps and the U.S. Forest Service, just inaugurated its first cohort of nearly 90 members. They’ll be sent out into priority landscapes across the West to do fuels reduction, prescribed burn and tree reseeding projects, all intended to support the USFS’ broader Wildfire Crisis and Reforestation strategies.
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Starting about a week ago, western Wyoming's skies have been smokey. This is likely just the start of what will be a smokey remainder of summer.
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In the wake of the devastating Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire in 2022, the U.S. Forest Service paused prescribed fires – which started the infernos – to review the agency’s program. A newly released Government Accountability Office report looks into how well the agency has implemented changes since then. While acknowledging that changes necessary to resume burning have been made, the government watchdog says more work remains.
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Fires are increasingly gaining steam overnight in the West, especially in mountainous regions. A recent study says drought conditions are the largest driver.
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Federal fire forecasters are expecting another month of “normal” potential for large wildfires in the state for July. But conditions are drying out and heating up.
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The cost of housing has long been an issue for wildland firefighters, many of whom end up living in vehicles or camping on days off to avoid those expenses.
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Prescribed fires and other forest treatments have a proven track record of reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire. But a new paper argues that an overreliance on those practices has come at the expense of efforts to make homes and communities more resilient.
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The National Interagency Fire Center’s June outlook forecasts above normal temperatures and normal precipitation, with the rest of the summer poised to be even hotter and drier. That’s coming off of a May that was abnormally dry in the eastern half of the state.
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The federal government spends, on average, more than $3 billion a year on fighting wildfires. A new report estimates how much those costs could increase in the future due to human-caused climate change.