After rash of wildfires, Texas agency offering grants for clearing land
The Texas A&M Forest Service is offering grants to Central Texans for clearing their land of flammable vegetation to reduce ...
USDA Opens 59% of Federal Forest for Logging to Manage Fire Risk
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins placed nearly 113 million acres of forest — amounting to 59% of all federally managed ...
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Wildfires up over 100% as Troxler asks for state funding for Forest Service vacancies, equipment
At April’s Council of State meeting, North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler called on the General Assembly ...
Troxler: Old firefighting equipment, more firefighters needed
He cited the need for more state funds to replace old firefighting equipment and hire more firefighters. Twenty-one states and the federal government have sent firefighters to help North Carolina, the ...
Making it rain: What it takes to fight a forest fire from the clear, dry skies
Equipped with orange Bambi Buckets, the Army National Guard helicopters dumped over a half-million gallons of water on the ...
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Sen. Sheehy, who started aerial firefighting company, wants to end USFS aircraft inspections
The Forest Service has conducted its own annual inspections of aircraft for about half a century, following a spate of deadly accidents in the 1960s and '70s.
Gov. Stitt wants to get rid of forestry department after deadly fires
Governor Stitt said that the state should get rid of the Department of Forestry, weeks after several deadly fires.
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City of Concord Fire Marshal lifts local burn ban
The city of Concord’s Fire Marshal has lifted the city-wide burn ban, effective immediately. The expiration of the city’s ...
The Table Rock Fire spreads into North Carolina, March 29 wildfire updates
More than 20,000 acres of land have been burned from wildfires in the Carolinas near the South Carolina-North Carolina state ...