Monthly Archives: October 2020

Another bad wildfire year for our national forests

This year over 3.8 million acres have burned on U.S. Forest Service-protected lands, an area larger than the size of Connecticut.   There have been 6,046 fires on these lands, which is just 13 percent of the 46,466 fires started in 2020. Yet they account for 45 percent of the total acres burned. Records continue…

Thinning and prescribed fire treatments reduce tree mortality

From the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station To date in 2020, 1,217 wildfires have burned 1,473,522 million acres of National Forest System lands in California; 8,486 wildfires have burned over 4 million acres across all jurisdictions in California. This current fire activity comes after forests in the region experienced an extreme drought accompanied…