Prescribed goat grazing
Goats at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Instead of mowing, the company rents 200 of them for a week at a time to remove weeds in a field. Google photo. Yes, that is a new term to me also —...
View ArticleResearch: Firewise principles may not reduce suppression costs
Home threatened by the Colby fire east of Los Angeles, January 17, 2014. Photo by John Stimson. A study conducted by Headwaters Economics explored how firefighting costs might be affected by the...
View ArticleSuccess story in the Klamath Mountains
Facnetwork.org has an interesting article about how residents in the northern California community of Butler successfully prepared for and responded to the Butler Fire, part of the Orleans Complex, in...
View ArticleUSFS bans exploding targets in their Northern Region
The U.S. Forest Service has banned the use of exploding targets in their Northern Region, which includes all lands administered by the USFS in the states of Montana and North Dakota, and in parts of...
View ArticleNew fire prevention print ads
In addition to the two new Smokey Bear fire prevention videos, the Ad Council has created three new print ads featuring artwork made of the ashes of wildfires. You can download higher resolution...
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