Northern Arizona University’s Ecological Restoration Institute is taking the lead on an effort to map forest treatments across the country. The first-of-its-kind undertaking is designed to make the work more effective and lessen the [...]
Arizona's first modern megafire raged through ponderosa pines 20 years ago this month, burning deep scars that still reveal themselves on the landscape atop the Mogollon Rim. How the forest recovers — if it does — will [...]
For Kathryn Mahan and her husband, Jamie, the front steps of their home in the northern New Mexico village of Las Dispensas were a family touchstone. The couple built the house themselves in 2015 [...]
FLAGSTAFF – The electric blue sky frames a stand of ponderosa pines – their ramrod trunks picket the forest floor as sunlight floods the ground. A breeze tickles the green needles, mingling dust with [...]
In an effort to improve forest resilience and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires in the Interior West, three organizations are receiving a total of $20 million from the U.S. government. The funds are [...]
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Southern Arizona’s abnormally dry conditions can result in an earlier than normal start to wildfire season and climate change is playing a growing role. “It’s not going to [...]
FLAGSTAFF, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- The Tunnel Fire just north of Flagstaff is burning through an area still recovering from a wildfire that sparked more than a decade ago. Back in 2010, the Schultz [...]
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More than five and a half million acres have burned in the U.S. this year. Wildfires have grown larger and more intense over the last few decades, in part because of the warmer temperatures [...]
Researchers have believed for decades that thinning trees can be healthy for the forest, but it was unclear how long the benefits of those treatments would last. A group of researchers at Northern Arizona [...]
