Fire ecology is the study of the natural effects of fire on natural systems. Gregory described the focus of the student internships is thinking about how “such an important force impacts all ...

Five years on from the CZU fire gutting Big Basin, the picture of it’s recovery is starting to come into view.Practically the ...

The Historical Role of Fire in Shaping U.S. Forests S. forests, acting as nature's way of maintaining balance. Historically, fires were not just random events; they played a crucial role in ...

The Cal-Wood Education Center is using the changing nature around them to teach students about the fire that burned 600 acres of the nonprofit's land.

"About fire ecology, what a fire does, and how we prevent fires. Also, how to mitigate and how to restore a fire." More than 5,000 students every year from across the front range come to Cal-Wood ...

On field trips we will visit both historic and recent burned areas, learning field methods to reconstruct fire history (tree rings analyses) and assess past fire history through forest stand structure ...

It’s not easy to attend classes when you’re in the field fighting fires and helping to manage a delicate balance of resources on rangelands. Yet, there are federal education and training requirements ...

Fire suppression activities are causing future blazes to burn at higher severity and under more hostile conditions — worsening the impacts of climate change, a new study has found. Although ...

Featured presentations at the 109 th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Long Beach, California. July 22, 2024 For immediate release. Contact: Mayda Nathan, (202) 833-8773 ext. 211, ...

Clay Trauernicht, a fire ecology specialist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, told the New York Times this week that one thing that helps the fires spread is an overgrowth of non-native grasses ...