by FSEEE | Aug 25, 2026 | Briefly, Fire Truth, In the News
The human-caused Hawk Fire in Nevada made headlines after it grew to 15,000 acres from Saturday, Aug. 22, to Sunday, Aug. 23. as winds pushed the flames into parts of northwest Reno. Like a majority of fast-growing fires, the Hawk Fire burned mainly in brush and grass...
by FSEEE | Aug 24, 2026 | Briefly
Typically, when conservationists talk about old-growth forests, they focus on protecting forests that have already reached that stage. In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a new conservation easement takes a different approach by protecting a forest so it can naturally...
by FSEEE | Aug 18, 2026 | In the News
A study published June 11 in Science by Stanford researchers Iván Higuera-Mendieta and Marshall Burke and covered last week by The Washington Post confirms what fire ecologists and Indigenous communities have advocated for generations: low-severity, controlled burning...
by FSEEE | Aug 16, 2026 | Fire Science, Fire Truth, In Depth
As Westerners cope with the smoke and flames of another record-setting fire season, the media serves up dramatic videos of various active wildfires. Much of this footage focuses on dramatic images of crown fires burning through forest canopies, suggesting these fires...
by FSEEE | Aug 7, 2026 | FS Reorganization
Kirsten Stade, reporting for Steady State Herald, recently spoke with FSEEE Executive Director Kevin Hood about the reorganization taking place within the U.S. Forest Service. The interview was part of a larger piece examining the Trump Administration’s...
by FSEEE | Aug 6, 2026 | Community Fire Resilience, Fire Science, Fire Truth, In Depth, Science Notes
Dr. Jack Cohen delivered a keynote presentation at the 2026 Colorado Wildland Fire Conference in Fort Collins entitled “Community Wildfire Risk and Fire Resilient Landscapes.” Just prior to his keynote, we had the opportunity to have a conversation about his work as a...
by FSEEE | Jul 30, 2026 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News
Courthouse News Service reported on oral arguments in FSEEE’s federal lawsuit challenging the Forest Service’s use of aerial fire retardant, which the agency sprays across millions of acres of public land every fire season without ever having formally...
by FSEEE | Jul 28, 2026 | Briefly, FS Reorganization
As communities across the western United States endure a severe wildfire season following an unusually dry winter, the research that supports wildfire response is being threatened. Over the past several decades, federally funded scientists have developed tools that...
by FSEEE | Jul 24, 2026 | Briefly
In June, Terrasse-Vaudreuil, a town in Quebec, Canada, became the first municipality in the world to sign on to the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree, which was drafted in 2018 and revised in 2019. The Declaration proclaims three fundamental principles:...
by FSEEE | Jul 21, 2026 | Action Alert, In the News
The Bureau of Land Management announced Friday that it will auction 41 oil and gas parcels totaling 2,840 acres in the Wayne National Forest on September 15. This lease sale would bring modern hydraulic fracturing to Ohio’s only national forest for the first...
