Wildland Fire News

A selection of news releases and stories related to wildland fire management. For details about ongoing wildfires, visit the National Interagency Fire Center.

Year

Type

In the News: Southwest Wildfire Awareness Week (nmfireinfo.com)

03/30/2020

The federal, state, and tribal partners of the Southwest Wildland Fire Prevention and Information Committee announce Southwest Wildfire Awareness Week, March 29 – April 4, 2020.

Wildland Fire and Fuels Management (blm-egis.maps.arcgis.com)

03/25/2020

Explore the history, strategy, and science behind the Bureau of Land Management's fire program in Redding, California.

Fighting fire with fire (keysweekly.com)

03/20/2020

A report on the Everglades National Park Fire and Aviation Program featuring Prescribed Fire Specialist Michael Gue.

Prescribed fire at Dos Palmas Preserve (www.blm.gov)

03/19/2020

Fire crews from the California Desert Interagency Fire Program will treat up to two acres of public lands with prescribed fire in the Dos Palmas Preserve in the Colorado Desert in Riverside County.

Prescribed burning south of Boise (www.blm.gov)

03/19/2020

The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burns to reduce unsafe accumulations of tumbleweeds along fence lines and roadways south of Boise within the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area.

Prescribed fire planned for Sierrita Mountains (www.blm.gov)

03/17/2020

The Bureau of Land Management’s Tucson Field Office and Gila District Fire Management Office, in cooperation with the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance and the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, will conduct a multiple-day prescribed burn in the Sierrita Mountains, pending appropriate weather and seasonal conditions, within the months of April through June 2020.