May 20, 2022 3:29 pm Source: https://www.wildlandfirefighter.com/2022/05/20/burning-by-the-seat-of-my-pants/ Back in the 1970s, I had graduated with a degree in Natural Resource Management and had four fire seasons with the US Forest Service under my belt. I was now working as a range conservationist for a state agency and fighting fires as a part of their militia. One day, my boss…
October 29, 2021 2:59 pm Source: https://wildlandfirefighter.com/2021/10/29/for-tribes-good-fire-key-to-restoring-nature-and-people/ By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer WEITCHPEC, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Azzuz stood in prayer on a Northern California mountainside, arms outstretched, grasping a handmade torch of dried wormwood branches, the fuel her Native American ancestors used for generations to burn underbrush in thick forest. “Guide our hands as we bring fire…
June 23, 2021 4:48 pm Source: https://wildlandfirefighter.com/2021/06/23/vacaville-ca-prescribed-burn/ Controlled burn and training (Solana NewsNet, YouTube) Solana NewsNet May 26, 2021: Crews from the Vacaville Fire Department and nearby allied agencies set fire to dry vegetation on Callen Hill near Allison Drive on Wednesday as part of a controlled burn and training event ahead of this year’s wildfire season….
June 22, 2021 11:57 am Source: https://wildlandfirefighter.com/2021/06/22/calls-to-increase-prescribed-burns-face-obstacles/ “The program has to last forever.” FILE – This Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, shows charred trunks of Ponderosa pines near Sisters, Ore., months after a prescribed burn removed vegetation, smaller trees and other fuel ladders last spring. Hundreds of millions of acres of forests have become overgrown, prone to wildfires…
June 7, 2021 3:34 pm Source: https://wildlandfirefighter.com/2021/06/07/gila-cliff-dwellings-national-monument-closes-due-to-burnout/ Crews doing a burnout to keep wildfire from monument SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in southwestern New Mexico is closed to the public while crews conduct a burnout operation to reduce the risk of a wildfire burning toward the monument and the nearby community…
May 25, 2021 11:25 am Source: https://wildlandfirefighter.com/feed/ Fires so far have burned nearly five times as much acreage as they did last year at this time. California Gov. Gavin Newsom jumps out of a new Sikorsky S70i Black Hawk firefighting helicopter after arriving to highlight new firefighting equipment and his proposed $2 billion investment in wildfire and emergency…
