Saving historic Mount Wilson and crucial communications from Eaton Fire
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Where the city meets the forest
Los Angeles skyline with the Angeles National Forest in the background. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt)
Editor’s note: The Forest Service, now in its second year of implementing its Wildfire Crisis Strategy, is treating 11 additional landscapes across the country to help reduce wildfire risk to communities. Combined with the initial 10…
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Reducing wildfire risk and supporting rural economies
This aerial view of Lincoln County illustrates the heavily forested lands intermixed with homes and infrastructure. (USDA Forest Service photo)
Lincoln County Montana is a beautiful place. Heavily forested, with the Cabinet Mountains as a backdrop, the vistas are what draw people here.…
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Protecting the Stanislaus Landscape
Part of the National Recreation Trails system, the Pinecrest Lake loop is one of the premiere hiking trails in the state of California and the entry way to the sublime -- Cleo’s Bath. Follow the trail around to the sign for Cleo’s Bath, turn off the main trail and begin your ascent higher into the eastern the Sierra Nevada. (USDA Forest Service Photo by Benjamin Cossel).
For many residents of…
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Prescribed burns restoring National Forests in Arkansas and Oklahoma to health
Tufts of smoke from prescribed fires on the Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests can be seen from a NOAA satellite image across Northwest Arkansas and East Oklahoma. When conducting prescribed burns wind direction is just one of many critical factors fire personnel consider to limit…
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Celebrating Partnerships in the Central Sierra Recovery and Restoration Project
Editor’s note: The USDA Forest Service has committed its efforts to mitigating wildfire risk across 20 million acres of National Forests and up to an additional 30 million acres of other Federal, State, Tribal, and private lands as a part of the agency’s 10- year strategy to confront the wildfire crisis. This article illustrates how working across boundaries will be essential for that…