January 21, 2021
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Clarifying liability and creating certification for private landowners SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s energy and natural resources agency is putting its support behind legislation that it says would clear the way for more prescribed fires as ...
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January 19, 2021
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Fuels breaks are planned in six states By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists have filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S government to block plans to build up to 11,000 miles (17,700 ...
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January 19, 2021
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Removing excess vegetation and slash piles RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service and its partners plan nearly a dozen prescribed fire operations around Lake Tahoe this week to help clear out underbrush that can fuel wildfires. ...
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January 12, 2021
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Study underscores growing public health threat By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming ...
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January 4, 2021
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Fall 2020 has been extremely dry By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The amount of water in California’s mountain snowpack is only about half of average for early winter, a state Department of Water Resources ...
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December 17, 2020
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Wildfire smoke is far more complex and dynamic than meets the eye Brett B. Palm University of Washington (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The year ...
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December 15, 2020
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Rules fast-track projects to benefit logging, grazing and mining By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Conservation groups are blasting a Trump administration decision officials said will reduce wildfires by streamlining environmental reviews of timber salvage ...
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November 30, 2020
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Plan has a focus on sage grouse habitat By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials on Friday released an overarching plan for removing or changing vegetation over a huge swath of the U.S. West ...
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November 19, 2020
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There are better ways to delineate why wildfires matter to society (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) As of late ...
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November 9, 2020
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689 acres in Cades Cove ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Officials with the National Park Service say a prescribed burn is scheduled for a portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park beginning this weekend. A news release from ...
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