Fighting Fires

Under climate warming, the risk of wildfires is increasing. So, we're all going to need to adapt.

USU’s Nora Eccles Harrison Museum hosted an open panel discussion this month about the “Facing Fire” exhibit and the many impacts of fire on art and our landscapes.

There is a new exhibit at the USU Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art called Facing Fire: Art, Wildlife and the End of Nature in the New West. Last Saturday, a cross-disciplinary panel of artists from the exhibit, policy makers, and a firefighter discussed fire in the west, and we're joined by three of those panelists today.

Musician Houston Guy, also known as Malfunkn, shares his inspiration for songs and how the “Facing Fire” exhibit at USU's Nora Eccles Harrison Museum spoke to him.

Members of a community in Midway say the air coming from the nearby wastewater treatment ponds managed by the Heber Valley Special Service District smells so horrible that it is impacting their health.

Federal officials have launched a two-pronged plan to stop a vicious cycle of rangeland wildfires in a wide swath of sagebrush country in the West that…