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Prescribed burns could heal Washington forests after decades of fire ...


Prescribed burns could heal Washington forests after decades of fire ...

A prescribed burn, or a controlled burn, is happening in Cle Elum ahead of wildfire season. The goal is to remove old and dead vegetation to ...

Prescribed burns could heal Washington forests after decades of fire ...

As firefighters walk through part of the Central Cascade Forest near Cle Elum, their drip-torches are lit and dropping fuel on a patch of earth....

Prescribed burning reduces wildfire smoke impacts - DEOHS

Commonly called “prescribed burns,” these targeted, controlled fires keep forests healthy by reducing the buildup of grasses, leaves, branches, ...

Fighting fire with fire: Prescribed burns to offset wildfire dangers

Washington is facing a forest health crisis. As a whole, the state's 20-year forest plan calls for specialized treatments – including ...

Can Washington state hack and burn its way out of a future of ...

Nevertheless, barriers and questions remain. Prescribed fire, an essential step in making forests more resilient to wildfire, has been thwarted ...

New Science on Prescribed Fire - The Nature Conservancy

The study by scientists from The Nature Conservancy, the US Forest Service, and the University of Idaho shows that the dry forests of Washington ...

Wildfire season in Washington state: How prescribed burns ... - KUOW

Washington's Department of Natural Resources restarted its prescribed burn program last year, after two decades of no burns, and we may soon see ...

Fighting fire with fire: Bringing prescribed burns back to Washington ...

During the cooler months of the year, Erickson said tribes now living on the Colville reservation would create small burns to reduce the amount ...

How We're Returning Fire to the Landscape

Fire is a natural part of our Eastern Washington landscapes, and we use prescribed burns as a tool to return fire to our forests in a ...

Prescribed Fire Program - WA - DNR

A prescribed fire for forest restoration occurs when low-severity fire is applied to the forest floor in order to reduce built-up vegetation.

Fighting fire with fire: After 18-year absence, Washington's bringing ...

Prescribed burns are a way of undoing the ecological damage caused by long-term fire suppression. They mimic the beneficial, natural fires that ...

Wildfires need fuel to burn. A key way to get rid of ... - Washington Post

Prescribed fires may reduce scorched earth, experts agree, and regenerate healthy forests made weak by drought, climate change and bad policy.

New Rx Fire in Action — Washington Prescribed Fire Council

At Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, land managers conduct prescribed burns along the edges of wetland areas to reduce organic materials and promote growth of ...

The Role of Good Fire in Washington's Forests

... controlled, prescribed burns play ... health of forests and ensuring communities are resilient and can recover quickly following wildfires.

DNR Planning Prescribed Burns on up to 2580 Acres of State Trust ...

... after program relaunched in 2022 The Washington ... Washington to expand the use of prescribed fire and address our forest health crisis.

Washington uses prescribed burns to prevent wildfire

“In treated forests, our rates of spread are a lot lower,” said Austin Marshall, the agency's fire unit manager in Kittitas County. “Our flame ...

Setting fires to control wildfires: a profound change takes hold in ...

This work is no cure-all for the smoke that blanketed the Puget Sound region in August. But Forest Service officials say it could help Northwest ...

A Season of Good Fire in Washington - The Nature Conservancy

Many forests and grasslands in Washington were historically fire-adapted and benefitted from low-intensity fires every 10-15 years, and cultural burning has ...

More prescribed burns could prevent Washington megafires - KING 5

It's called prescribed burning. Above Roslyn, Washington, crews with DNR, the U.S. Forest Service, the non-profit Nature Conservancy and the ...

Prescribed burns are back in Washington state. Why? - KUOW

Franz says prescribed burning will reduce some of the fuel on our forest floors that can turn a fire from bad to worse; debris can cause fires ...