A new wildfire was reported today at 7:53 a.m. in Siskiyou County, California. Rock Fire has been burning on federal land ...

Rangeland rancher John Austel was glad to have a wildfire grazing plan in place, but he didn’t want to have to put it to the test.

Eight years after the 2017 Nuns-Tubbs wildfires, killing more than 20 people, Sonoma County Emergency Management Dep.

However, these three agencies are critical components of California's wildfire response capabilities, from forecasting and forest management to firefighting and disaster relief. Weakening them at ...

The Forest Legacy Management Flexibility amendment would help California achieve multiple goals simultaneously: reduce catastrophic wildfire risk, conserve critical forest ecosystems, maintain ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 8:04 p.m. in Washoe County, California. S-5 Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. At this time, there is no information ...

A NPS fire ranger monitors the Hughes fire on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Castaic, California. The fire started north of Castaic and has exploded to more than 5,000 acres in under two hours.

On March 22, 2019, Gov. Newsom declared a wildfire state of emergency for California and waived environmental regulations to speed up forest management projects aimed at reducing the fuel load for ...

California’s Wildfire Problem Could Be Solved by a Few Legal Changes 5 minute read The French Fire burns in Kern County, Cali. on Aug. 21, 2021. David Swanson—Bloomberg/Getty Images ...

California Wildfire Crews Make Headway, but Tough Conditions Expected to Persist The state’s 10 largest fires have burned a total of 2.2 million acres so far this year By Talal Ansari Share ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has been steadily adding more personnel in recent years and now employs more than 12,500 people with a goal to increase staffing to 14,500 ...