Wildfire

J. Bradley Washa, USU Assistant Professor of Wildland Fire Science shares updates on the Yellow Lake Fire and how our warm October is affecting fire season across the state.

J. Bradley Washa, assistant professor of Wildland Fire Science at USU, gives us an end of season update and the outlook as we head into the colder months.

J. Bradley Washa, Assistant Professor of Wildland Fire Science at USU, gives us an update on several fires burning across Utah and the wildfire season outlook for the remaining summer months.

Recent large-scale fires that have consumed entire communities in the wildland-urban interface are a result of human-built structures rather than wildfires, according to new research published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In other news, fire crews are monitoring a fire in Washington County. And, the Division of Wildlife Resources wants to hear from hunters on new hunting regulations for 2024.

New climate research shows that wildfire risk is increasing across the western U.S., especially at high elevations. Read on to find out what this means for wildfire management in Utah.

Recent discussion on tree-thinning as a solution to the decreasing Great Salt Lake suggests that such efforts are not likely to produce effective results.

The Utah Department of Environmental Quality on Friday morning listed PM 2.5 pollutants in Cache Valley at 64.4 milograms per cubic meter of air, squarely placing valley air quality in the "unhealthy" category.

In the face of increasing wildfire severity across the US, one researcher speaking at USU this week hopes to bring back indigenous wildfire practices to current US wildfire management strategies that work to suppress fire.

There’s an eerie stillness inside a wildfire burn scar. The ground, once lush with life, is a gray mat of ashy soil. There are no leaves or needles to…