Aug 6, 2018 | News, News/PR
As thousands more people in Northern California fled their homes as wildfires surge, Florida is sending more firefighters to help battle raging wildfires in California. As of Wednesday, the Florida Forest Service had sent 75 firefighters to California, as well as...
Feb 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
For the first time in its history, the national Wildland Firefighter Apprenticeship Program is providing training in the eastern United States, and it is doing so at the Auburn University Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center in Andalusia. The training course, also...
Jul 19, 2017 | News, News/PR
Western wildfires are the headline grabbers, but forests in the eastern United States are also fire-dependent and increasingly at risk because of fire exclusion, according to a researcher at Penn State University. “Many people have been lulled into believing that it...
Apr 19, 2017 | News, News/PR
The Goshen Pass Fire has burned about 3000 acres in Rockbridge County since it began one week ago and is now believed to be 80% contained by crews with the Virginia Department of Forestry and the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries. Sixty people are on...
Dec 9, 2016 | News, News/PR
When people and property are endangered, wildfires are viewed as calamities. And, indeed, to those directly affected, they can be deadly and devastating. But from Mother Nature’s point of view, wildfires play an integral role in the health of a forest by thinning...