A new 10-year Wildfire Strategy outlines the need to significantly increase fuels and forest health treatments to address the growing risk of wildfire that threatens lands and communities across the West.
Creative Forest Thinning Reduces Fire Risk and Fosters Healthy Forests
The Nature Conservancy is working on a new and creative forest restoration project on Cle Elum Ridge, called the “How Go Unit,” within the Central Cascades Forest. This “selective thinning” project will reduce fire risk, create healthy forests and support recreational access and natural habitat.
Prescribed Fire Season Kicks Off in Eastern Washington
TNC Lands Reopened in Eastern Washington
Thank You For Supporting Fire Funding
Make Your Voice Heard for Nature
We've Garnered A Lot of Attention for Fire Funding
Legislative Halftime Report
Our spirits are high as we pass the halfway point in the 105-day Washington state legislative session. Many top priority policies have made it past the first major policy deadline, known as “House of Origin cutoff,” when bills introduced in the House must be approved by a House floor vote, and likewise in the Senate.
Make Your Voice Heard: Tell Lawmakers to Support Designated Fire Funding
You can support current efforts in the Washington Legislature to create a designated fire funding source to directly support forest-health treatments, help communities become fire-prepared and increase funding for firefighting equipment and personnel to help fight the large, destructive fires we’ve seen in recent years.
We Support Designated Fire Funding—Here's How You Can Help
Local Leadership on Display at This Year’s Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)
NASA and The Nature Conservancy Team Up on Wildfire Project
Legislature adjourns without taking bold climate action
In the Face of Fire: How Communities are Learning From Each Other
Bringing good fire onto McNary National Wildlife Refuge with Cascadia TREX
Fuel from multiple handheld drip torches ignited invasive grasses and fire spread quickly across a former farm field Wednesday, as fire professionals from many agencies worked together to conduct a controlled burn at the McNary National Wildlife Refuge in Burbank, near the Tri-Cities in south-central Washington. The exercise was part of the 2019 Cascadia Fall TREX, or Prescribed Fire Training Exchange, held Sept. 29-Oct. 11.