WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2024 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today unveiled a new program to support American wood processing facilities. USDA Rural Development is partnering with USDA Forest Service to provide funding through the new Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program (TPEP). The program will support the processing and utilization of wood products from National Forest System lands to improve forest health and reduce the risk posed by wildfires, insects, and disease and the detrimental impacts they have on communities and critical infrastructure.

Conservationists are teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service and logging companies to clear scorched land and make room for new reforestation projects.

A year after a forest wildfire, the U.S. Forest Service assesses the damage but research shows that's not enough time to map restoration.

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A national firefighter labor shortage is making it harder to suppress massive wildfires across the West, with fewer federal teams that Oregon can ask for help.

The NICC says widespread wildfire activity across the country is creating a shortage of fire fighters and resources, which demanded the increased support.

The rural Washington town is at the top of fire risk nationally, but its grassroots strategy could be a blueprint for others throughout the West.

Researchers found wildfires are increasing mercury concentrations in Pacific Northwest headwater streams. Mercury is a naturally occurring metal but under the right conditions, it can be converted into methylmercury, a

Significant rain on Sunday caused a mudslide inside the current 11 mile stretch of the roadway that's shut down because of the Easy Fire.

More than a million acres have burned so far in Oregon’s wildfire season. As August gets underway, here’s an overview of some active blazes.

A month before the Upper Cemetery fire burned 50 acres west of downtown Spokane, fire crews had treated the area by pruning and cutting down trees to reduce a potential wildfire spread.

The blazes have “scorched” an area greater than five times the size of the city of Sacramento, California, reports said.

Several large wildfires burning in Washington are growing, at least one wildfire is nearing structures and highway closures are also in effect.

A brief update on the Mullen Hill, Upper Cemetery, Gwen, Swawilla, and South Columbia Basin fires.

State officials warned travelers in Oregon to be aware of the wildfires and prepare for sudden road closures and potential power outages.

The Level 3 Level 3 applies to the area from just north of Moore Point through the Stehekin Valley, including the Stehekin Landing and west to High Bridge.

When driving down Columbia Basin Highway after a 220-acre wildfire, some homes appear to still be standing among the charred, still-smoldering ground. Others were lost.

A wildfire quickly spreading across the Colville Indian Reservation led to new evacuation orders Wednesday around Buffalo Lake north of Coulee Dam.

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Highway 12 remains closed from the top of White Pass to Oak Creek.

With 38 large, uncontained wildfires actively burning 838,908 acres of land across Oregon and Washington, the region is currently the top firefighting priority in the U.S.

(The Center Square) – Puget Sound Energy and other utility companies in Washington state are preparing for the possibility of cutting the power in high-risk wildfire conditions.

More than 70,000 acres have burned in eight fires, according to the state.

Firefighters in the West are scrambling as wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington.

Two growing wildfires on the Colville Indian Reservation in Ferry County have led to road closures and evacuation warnings for the town of Keller.

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2024 — The Biden-Harris administration today announced it is taking additional steps to safeguard western communities in the face of increasingly dangerous and intense wildland fires by building advanced wildfire detection capabilities using satellite technology. The Department of the Interior and U.S.

A wildfire in Ferry County that was touched off by lightning last week has already swelled to over 5,500 acres.