A new wildfire was reported 2:57 p.m. Dec. 28 in San Diego County, California. Fa/drd Fire has been burning on federal land ...

Since its discovery four months ago, it has burned 0.3 acres of federal land managed by the United States Forest Service. The ...

Bone-dry conditions in an area that has not seen a major fire in more than 60 years pushed a Southern California wildfire from 45,000 acres to more than 100,000 acres in a matter of hours Monday, fire ...

Evacuation orders have been announced for parts of Napa County, California as a wildfire continues to blaze through the area. Pickett Fire, which began on Aug. 21, has spread to more than 6,800 acres ...

By Gloria Dickie In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears ...

After more than a century of fire suppression in California’s forests, mounting evidence shows that frequent fire — through practices like prescribed fire or Indigenous cultural burning — can improve ...

This investigation was originally published by The Plumas Sun and Bay Nature, a nonprofit news outlet that connects San Francisco Bay Area residents more deeply with the natural world. A white-headed ...

ALTURAS, Calif. -- A U.S. Forest Service firefighter from South Dakota has been killed battling one of more than a dozen wildfires raging across California, Forest Service officials said Friday night.

It’s the subversive act of simply identifying a need in the landscape or the community — maybe the community garden could use some soil revitalization, or the oak trees plagued with weevil pests could ...