Forest fires are devastating ... of the University of Idaho's Artists-in-Fire Residency (which helped pay my way), is why I, a journalist with no fire jobs on my résumé, could join a prescribed ...

Yet every time another town is destroyed by a wildfire, usually nowhere near a forest, politicians shift the conversation and the funding away from creating fire-safe communities and instead focus ...

PAYSON — When lightning ignited chaparral and ponderosa pine litter to form the West Fire one night in late August, U.S. Forest Service ... praised the effort to save old-growth trees for ...