A new wildfire was reported today at 4:57 p.m. at in San Luis Obispo County, California. Forest Fire has been burning on ...

New research finds that climate-driven shifts in wildfire seasons in North America are different depending on the ecosystem.

In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots ...

The program works as a coordinator of sorts, simply because it doesn’t have boundaries like a resource conservation district or the U.S. Forest Service.

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to ...

The U.S. Forest Service will staff Colby Mountain Lookout in Lassen National Forest for the 2026 fire season, enhancing fire ...

At last month’s meeting of the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force in Redlands, Director Patrick Wright remembered the group’s early days: “Candidly, when I started this job, we got ...

In the 40 years since fires sparked by lightning have been allowed to burn unabated in a section of Yosemite National Park, ecologist Scott Stephens has watched extensive conifer forests grow back as ...

PARADISE, Calif. — President Donald Trump walked through the ashes of the Northern California town of Paradise on Saturday, promising to help the state recover but repeating his disputed view that ...

Long-term research in California shows that many bird populations increase after wildfires and can remain more abundant in burned areas for decades, especially following moderate fires. Although some ...