“Oregonians have raised concerns over the current Oregon Statewide Wildfire Hazard Map, and this issue runs parallel to our .

Massive federal layoffs are hitting communities across the West, including rural, recreation hotspots like McCall, Idaho.

Often wildfires are reported by people seeing smoke. That hasn’t changed, but other ways fires are spotted have evolved. In the early part of the 20th century, the newly established U.S. Forest ...

This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form ... wave of mass firings, Forest Service workers, many of whom helped fight fires.

Read More: How to Help Victims of the Los Angeles Wildfires That same year, an unprecedented fire broke out in the West, burning millions of acres of forest in Idaho, Montana, and Washington in ...

“Oregonians have raised concerns over the current Oregon ... “The wildfire map places all the responsibility on private property owners while state and federal forest owners do nothing ...

If you or someone you know is a federal worker who lost a job recently in Washington or Idaho and would ... “In the Forest Service, there are office positions for fires. There are extra dispatchers.

While he refines the part of his algorithm that updates the current state of a wildfire, Oberai says it can already map out the likely ... change scientist and forest ecologist at the University ...

The Pioneer Fire, Boise National Forest, Idaho, 2016. Credit: Forest Service photo by Kari ... they assessed past fire activity and compared it with modern fire perimeter maps from Canada and the ...

In the past 30-plus years, more than 3,600 wildfires in the state have been in some way related to power generation, transmission or distribution, according to U.S. Forest Service data as reported ...

layers of senseless bureaucracy and red tape have splintered our wildfire management system, failed our brave firefighters on the ground, and let entire communities be wiped off the map by ...