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

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

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 ...

But after the recent rains, a change is happening in the areas with large burn scars ... He says when determining new growth and life, it comes down to the roots. "The thing to remember is ...

The forest biomass industry — cutting forests to make wood pellets to be burned ... according to a new report on near-term global production and demand for wood pellets. This growth comes ...

Wildlife carers fear a large burn-off planned in the state’s east will harm native animal populations still recovering from the Black Summer fires five years ago.

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.

The 2018 Emerald Fire burned just 1.25 miles south of the study site, and the 2021 Caldor Fire damaged or destroyed numerous old-growth forest stands. To explore wildfire risk to the Emerald Point ...