wildfire

A $150,000 grant provided this week to the Desert Research Institute will be used to support a new Weather and Research Forecast modeling tool to improve wildfire preparedness in Nevada.

Bears near the Lake Tahoe basin are beginning to emerge from their winter dens and local wildlife officials say now is a crucial time for both the bears and residents to prevent ongoing bad bear behavior and damages.

The Biden administration will use $3 billion from last year’s infrastructure law to revamp the federal approach to wildfire management.

Members of the Northern Nevada Fire Chiefs Association this week said Nevadans should be prepared and take a proactive approach to preventing fire near their homes.

On their latest podcast episode, the Living With Fire team interviewed August Isernhagen, Division Chief of Wildland Fuels with Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue, about his career as a wildland firefighter.

The Bureau of Land Management Elko District officials this week said they’ll soon open the application process for a number of seasonal wildland firefighting jobs.

State wildfire recovery experts say FEMA’s help is increasingly necessary, but many of the agency’s programs are slow to respond to the immediacy of fire threats.

Storms moving into the Lake Tahoe area throughout the weekend have the potential to create dangerous conditions, especially in areas recently scarred by the Caldor Fire.

University of Nevada, Reno and DRI researchers are building the predictive and diagnostic tools that will transform the understanding of fire-generated extreme weather

Members of the Washoe Tribe have embarked on a project to integrate use of their tribe’s traditional knowledge into current land management strategies to restore Tahoe’s Meeks Meadows.