TAOS — Bobbie Scopa recalled the days when a 12,000-acre wildfire was still considered a big deal. She was a 19-year-old, rookie wildland firefighter with the National Forest Service the year she ...

Colorado’s Democratic members of Congress are calling on the U.S. Forest Service to prioritize wildfire mitigation efforts as the West faces a historically low snowpack that is raising concerns about ...

With winter approaching, the country’s risk of forest fires is rising, requiring greater caution. To help anticipate and manage these risks, Forest Fire Exposure Index was launched yesterday. This ...

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Sometimes the job of a fire department is to start a blaze rather than put one out. Counterintuitive? Not according to Durango Fire Protection District Wildfire Battalion Chief Scott Nielsen. On ...

(TNS) — LOS ANGELES — The giant, remote-controlled vehicle — somewhere between a tractor trailer, a tank and a Zamboni in appearance — slowly rolled across the dry, brittle grass growing between the ...

Some people are born to do the jobs they do. Chiara Forrester is one of them. "I was very lucky to become my namesake,” Forrester laughed as she walked through the woods in Allenspark. “Forrester the ...

TAOS — With freezing temperatures returning to parts of New Mexico, residents living near the state’s five national forests might see more than the usual cold-weather haze emitted by kivas and ...