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Forest Service may let more fires burn
Francisco :: IN :: USA | 3 months ago
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After coming in $400 million over budget following last year's busy fire season, the Forest Service is altering its approach and may let more fires burn instead of attacking every one. The move, quietly made in a letter late last month by Forest
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Next generation air tankers coming
Cheyenne :: WY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Forest Service will award long-delayed contracts to add several large, jet-powered air tankers to the nation's fleet of firefighting planes in about two months, U.S...The next generation air tankers are required to be able to cruise at more than 340
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U.S. official: Wildfires to get more destructive
Pocatello :: ID :: USA | 6 months ago
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Longer, hotter and drier seasons lie ahead, the Forest Service chief says, but restoration projects can help. rbarker@idahostatesman.com If you think fires have gotten big in the past few years, hold on...Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said Friday
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Gauge of neighborhood wealth? Look to the trees
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
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09 PM PDT Updated: 09/09/2012 04:22:12 PM PDT When the chief of the U.S. Forest Service landed in the Bay Area last month, he skipped the redwood forests to visit a treeless West Oakland sidewalk across from a used car parts shop.
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Debt standoff makes agency fight all fires
Boise :: ID :: USA | 9 months ago
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Act of 2009 was supposed to ensure that the Forest Service had enough money to fight fires without having to cut into programs to provide recreation, protect habitat and improve forest health. But after Congress raided the fund established by the law
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After 11 years, Fire Program Analysis system still isn't ready
Denver :: CO :: USA | 11 months ago
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It would be up and running by 2007, a powerful new tool in the yearly battle to save homes from the flames. In 2012 while tens of thousands of Colorado residents have fled their homes from an alarming eruption of June wildfires the program is still
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US wildfires fuel urgency for forest restoration
Albuquerque :: NM :: USA | 11 months ago
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N.M. (AP) — A combination of decades of vigorous fire suppression and the waning of the timber industry over environmental concerns have left many forests a tangled, overgrown mess, subject to the kind of super-fires that are now regularly consuming
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Investigator examines fatal Utah tanker crash site
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 12 months ago
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Federal investigators said Tuesday mechanical failure forced an air tanker fighting a Nevada wildfire to make a crash landing, but they were still trying to determine what brought down another tanker of the same vintage in southern Utah, killing two
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Feds prepare for another busy US fire season
Tijeras :: NM :: USA | 1 year ago
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N.M. (AP) — More than 100 large fires have swept across parts of the nation already this year, and the head of the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday the rest of the 2012 fire season is expected to be just as active as last year's, which saw historic
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Feds prepare for another busy US fire season
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | 1 year ago
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01 PDT Tijeras, N.M. (AP) -- The chief of the U.S. Forest Service says he expects this year's fire season to be just as active as last year, when historic fires charred hundreds of square miles in Arizona, New Mexico and elsewhere.
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