Storm debris, population growth and dry conditions are all contributing to a vicious fire season in the South.

Firefighters have fully contained a fire at Wharton State Forest in Waterford, New Jersey that broke out on Saturday.

And many animals also take advantage of the freshly burned forest. The charred remains ... And while this delicate balance between destruction and new growth has been a way of life for millennia ...

Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

Protecting tropical forests need not be a drag on development, nor a zero-sum trade-off with growth and poverty reduction ... The massive fires in Indonesia in 2015, which burned an area the size of ...

Logging on federal lands cut down about 14 square miles (36 square kilometers) of old-growth forest — and timber industry representatives have said that figure shows further restrictions aren ...

Amy Alonzo, the Nevada Independent For years, land managers discussed developing a fuel treatment plan for the Beaver Creek ...

In 1960, the U.S. Forest ... growth of forests. Based on these studies, the Forest Service began experimenting with prescribed fires and with allowing naturally caused fires to burn.

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — One week after the Carolina Forest wildfire ignited ... to stress the importance of adhering to the burn ban in place in Horry County as efforts to contain the ...