Increased concerns at the forefront for search and rescue teams after mass layoffs of forest and park rangers.

The WSDOT snow study plot near The Summit at Snoqualmie is adorned with all sorts of gauges and measuring equipment to monitor snowpack and avalanche danger.

A freeze on the hiring and onboarding of thousands of federal firefighters could have deadly consequences as the national ...

Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without ...

The Whatcom County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan does include a section on wildland fire and the county adopted a wildland fire-specific action plan in November 2023. But Whatcom County is still ...

Washington, D.C. >> After meeting with key state ... these proposals are part of a bigger state strategy to build wildfire and forest resilience from forest management, to huge investments in ...

Newsom signed the order after he returned from Washington to advocate for disaster aid ... these proposals are part of a ...

Michael Ingram was eager to see what remained of his childhood home in Malibu last week as he waited near a reentry point into the neighborhood, which was ravaged by the Palisades Fire that burned ...

Ecology, local clean air agencies, and Tribes can restrict indoor and outdoor burning under certain conditions. Air quality burn bans protect people when the air is unhealthy. Fire safety burn bans ...

As several fires continue to burn at an advice level in southern WA, firefighters are on stand-by to ensure the forecast hot and windy conditions do not escalate the blazes. When a fire is at an ...

That hasn’t changed, but other ways fires are spotted have evolved. In the early part of the 20th century, the newly established U.S. Forest Service built fire ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded ...

The Washington ... a state-run agency that aids in fighting and preventing wildfires, also spent much of Tuesday examining how the federal funding freeze would impact its wildfire prevention ...