Residents in Colorado foothills plan for possible evacuations as dry conditions raise wildfire concerns

With no snow cover, the idea of a catastrophic fire is on a lot of minds in Colorado's foothills.
The Daily of the University of Washington

UW study finds forest age drives remaining carbon after fires in wet temperate forests

Regardless of burn severity, the majority of total carbon, including both live and dead, remained after fires. But while the amount of live carbon remaining in stands with low-severity burns (less ...
Nevada Current

Forest Service logging and burning will cook bull trout to extinction in the Jarbidge River

Bull trout were listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act in 1999 after the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Wild Swan successfully sued the Fish and Wildlife Service.