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A firefighter watches a prescribed burn.

Land Management

Prescribed Fire Operations Planned For Spring at Turnbull NWR

A forest after a fire showing scorched tree trunks and forest floor

Prescribed Fire Operations Happening During Fall and Winter Months

Interagency Wildland Fire Meeting and Working Group

A firefighter dressed in Nomex protective clothing and hard hat, smiles and leans on their tool. Behind them is a lake and tall evergreen trees. The sky is hazy with smoke.

Remembering Brian Wolgamott

Flames & smoke spring up from wetland vegetation. A firefighter in the background ignites vegetation along a roadway as part of a prescribed fire. Mountains make up the background.

Land Management

Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge to conduct prescribed burn

11 Ways Wildlife Refuges Make Life Better

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 11/02/2024

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 11/01/2024

A mosaic burn pattern in a scrub habitat with black in the foregraound

Emergency Management

Updated Information on the Cause of Rush Fire

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 10/31/2024

a smoke plume emerges from a mountain at sunrise

Land Management

The Call of the Wildfire

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 10/30/2024

Flames & smoke spring up from wetland vegetation. A firefighter in the background ignites vegetation along a roadway as part of a prescribed fire. Mountains make up the background.

Land Management

Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge to conduct prescribed burn

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 11/02/2024

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 11/01/2024

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 10/31/2024

A mosaic burn pattern in a scrub habitat with black in the foregraound

Emergency Management

Updated Information on the Cause of Rush Fire

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 10/30/2024

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 10/29/2024

An arid lansdcape of hills covered with juniper and burn scars, with a large smoke from a wildfire visible in the center

Emergency Management

Rush Fire at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge 10/28/2024

Emergency Management

Wildfire damage forces parts of Oregon refuge to remain closed

A wildfire is burning in the desert. A black plume of smoke is behind an observation towet

Emergency Management

Refuge Fire Update

A wildfire is burning in the desert. A black plume of smoke is behind an observation towet

Emergency Management

Refuge Fire Update

Land Management

Prescribed Fires Planned at Kootenai

A firefighter watches a prescribed burn.

Land Management

Prescribed Fire Operations Planned For Spring at Turnbull NWR

A forest after a fire showing scorched tree trunks and forest floor

Prescribed Fire Operations Happening During Fall and Winter Months

Interagency Wildland Fire Meeting and Working Group

A firefighter dressed in Nomex protective clothing and hard hat, smiles and leans on their tool. Behind them is a lake and tall evergreen trees. The sky is hazy with smoke.

Remembering Brian Wolgamott

11 Ways Wildlife Refuges Make Life Better

a smoke plume emerges from a mountain at sunrise

Land Management

The Call of the Wildfire

Aerial image of a native seed farm with rows of bright colors and mountains along the horizon under a blue sky.

The art of growing native seed in California

A small yellow helicopter with a crew member looking out soars above rocky mountains in Wyoming.

Emergency Management

Taking Flight to Fight Wildland Fire

Emergency Management

Reducing Wildfire Risk in Montana

Increasing Fire Resilience in Madagascar

Emergency Management

Embracing Tradition: A Bilingual Journey through International Fire Exchanges

Emergency Management

From Microscopes to Flames: A Journey into Wildland Firefighting