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 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 | 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...
by FSEEE | Jul 20, 2026 | FS Reorganization, In the News
In Ely, Minnesota, last week, the Air Quality Index (AQI) hit 797.5, nearly triple the threshold for “hazardous,” and the highest reading the state has ever recorded. State climatologists are calling it the most intense wildfire smoke event Minnesota has...
by FSEEE | Jul 15, 2026 | Dispatch, In the News
Trump cuts the two national monuments by 90%. On Monday, July 13, President Trump signed a pair of executive orders cutting nearly 3 million acres out of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah. That is roughly 90 percent of the...
