Kristopher Edward Boger, 52, of Beaver, was sentenced to 364 days in prison in connection with the assault on a USFS road ...

A century of fire suppression, combined with global warming and drought, has led to increasingly destructive wildfires in the Western United States. Forest managers use tools like prescribed burns, ...

Florida Atlantic University researchers explore how removing dead wood can reduce wildfire risk and enhance carbon storage.

These traditions inform modern forest management techniques (e.g., prescribed burning and piling and burning), but the physical harvesting of dead wood without combustion is now being explored as ...

Emulating Indigenous practices, a new study shows that combining physical harvesting of dead wood with thinning reduces wildfire risks, lowers carbon emissions, and boosts carbon storage through ...