Lightning-sparked flames raced through a roughly 3,000-acre tract of old-growth forest in the central Sierra Nevada during the Garnet Fire in September. Before this year, the Teakettle Experimental ...

A two-decade-long experiment in the Sierra Nevada found that regular prescribed burns promote carbon sequestration in live ...

Indigenous fire practices are slowly regaining wider acceptance in California, but the dream of burning freely based on the needs of the land is still a long way off.

Volunteers help clear wildfire fuels at Lake Arrowhead Memorial Forest, where Better Place Forests and Team Rubicon are reducing fire risk for Twin Peaks and Crestline.

For generations, fire lookout towers stood as landmarks across the American West. Binoculars in hand, dedicated fire spotters scanned the landscape for smoke and radioed firefighters before flames ...

For generations, fire lookout towers stood as landmarks across the American West. Binoculars in hand, dedicated fire spotters scanned the landscape for smoke and radioed firefighters before flames ...

BurnBot is a huge, Zamboni-like vehicle that executes precisely controlled burns of flammable grass alongside buildings and roadways. It’s designed to create fire breaks — lines of charred land — that ...

In these times of climate denialism in Washington, some look for signs of reason in California. Sadly, one particular agency can’t see the forest for the trees. Cal Fire, the state’s chief fire agency ...

Roughly 500 years ago in California's High Sierra, pine cones dropped to the ground and a cycle began. The Aztec Empire was falling. The printing press was new. The seedlings grew. Half a millennia ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- With the Garnet Fire burning for the 19th day, the U.S. Forest Service allowed Action News into its Emergency Command Center. "During the initial attack, we're taking ...

Of the 42 bird species researchers at the Petaluma-based Institute for Bird Populations examined, 28 recorded a higher ...