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Creative Forest Thinning Reduces Fire Risk and Fosters Healthy Forests

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.

Legislative Halftime Report

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

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.

Local Leadership on Display at This Year’s Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)

Local Leadership on Display at This Year’s Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)

The TREX program does what no one else is doing in fire management: It provides a cooperative burning model that meets the needs of diverse entities, private landowners and the community—incorporating local values and issues to build the right kinds of capacity in the right places.

Bringing good fire onto McNary National Wildlife Refuge with Cascadia TREX

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.

"Good Fire" Training Returns to Central Washington

"Good Fire" Training Returns to Central Washington

Fighting fire with fire: Prescribed fire training returns to the Central Cascades this month. Firefighters and managers from nine organizations will learn how to apply prescribed burns safely to better manage our forests for health and resilience.

Urge Congress to Support the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act

Urge Congress to Support the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act

The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act would allow the Forest Service to access disaster funding rather than having to "borrow" from its regular forest health accounts to fight wildfire. Learn how you can support the effort.