- The Role of Good Fire in Washington's Forests🔍
- A Season of Good Fire in Washington🔍
- Fighting fire with fire to save Washington's forests🔍
- Forest Health🔍
- What Trees Know About Fire🔍
- Mitigating Wildfire and Saving the Old Trees🔍
- WDFW Forest Management🔍
- Fire ecology and management in Pacific Northwest forests🔍
The Role of Good Fire in Washington's Forests
The Role of Good Fire in Washington's Forests
Fire and in particular, controlled, prescribed burns play a critical role in the health of Washington's forests, preventing wildfires, ...
A Season of Good Fire in Washington - The Nature Conservancy
The role of TREX is pivotal as Washington and many states across the West aim to increase the use of prescribed fire as a practice for protecting our forests ...
Fighting fire with fire to save Washington's forests - Crosscut
After over a century of fire suppression, the U.S. Forest Service is using prescribed burns as a way to reduce the risk of megafires.
Forest Health - Washington Forest Protection Association
Private forest landowners in Washington take responsible measures to protect their forests from fire, insects, and disease, all while ensuring the well-being ...
What Trees Know About Fire - The Nature Conservancy
After forest thinning, professional fire teams can conduct controlled burns under safe conditions. These burns mimic the frequent, small fires that historically ...
Mitigating Wildfire and Saving the Old Trees
Fire and in particular, controlled, prescribed burns play a critical role in the health of Washington's forests, preventing wildfires, and ...
WDFW Forest Management | Washington Department of Fish ...
Potential wildfire fuels are removed with low intensity, low heat fire, restoring quality habitat for wildlife in the area. Prescribed burns mimic natural ...
Fire ecology and management in Pacific Northwest forests
Fire has been an important catalyst of change in Pacific Northwest forests throughout the Holocene. The role of fire varied across this biophysically diverse ...
Fire, Forests and Communities | Conservation Northwest
A combined approach of increased selective thinning, prescribed burning and greater human preparedness is the best solution to improve forest health and protect ...
Fires in Washington State: Fire Management and Prevention ...
The Role of Prescribed Fire in Forest Health · Creating firebreaks to contain the burn area. · Monitoring weather forecasts to ensure favorable conditions.
Wildfire | Washington State Military Department, Citizens Serving ...
Wildland fires are fires caused by nature or humans that result in the uncontrolled destruction of forests, brush, field crops, grasslands and real and ...
We Can Do Better - Washington's Working Forests
Forest fires are natural, but catastrophic wildfire shouldn't be the “new normal.” The forests of Washington state are vital to us in terms of the role they ...
Living with fire – For Washington
“Prescribed burning is an essential tool that our community continues to look to, along with other forest management practices, to ensure our ...
Forest Fire Safety - King County, Washington
Even in temperate western Washington it can take only a few sunny days for forests to dry out enough to catch fire. And, in windy conditions wildfires can ...
Here's how Washington forests are more wildfire resilient | king5.com
“These fuel treatments, these timber sales, they provide opportunities to compartmentalize these fires and give us options to stop them,” he ...
Climate, forests, and the ecological function of fire in ecosystems are distinct between eastern and western. Washington. The maritime climate west of the ...
Can WA hack and burn its way out of a future of megafires?
Forest fires emerged as a natural enemy in the early days of settlement, when timber made up as much as 90% of the country's energy needs for ...
Eastern Washington's forest ecosystems have historically thrived alongside regular, low-intensity fires, playing a crucial role in upholding ...
Thinning, prescribed burns protected forests during the massive ...
In the first major study following the devastating Carlton Complex fire, researchers from the University of Washington and U.S. Forest Service ...
Two Communities' Prescribed Fire Outreach Efforts – Washington ...
Telling the Story of “Good Fire”: Two Communities' Prescribed Fire Outreach Efforts ... In 2016, the Washington State Legislature passed the Forest Resiliency ...