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...
Nov 29, 2017 | News, News/PR
The Arkansas Agriculture Department’s Forestry Commission (AFC) has suppressed 103 wildfires that burned 1,805 acres in the last four days, and now, 59 of 75 Arkansas counties are under high wildfire danger. Current drought conditions and weather forecasts for low...
Oct 28, 2016 | News, News/PR
After weeks of limited rainfall, the Kentucky Division of Forestry and U.S. Forest Service are joining efforts to prevent wildland forest fires across the state. “The dry weather conditions, along with above normal temperatures, have fire management officials...
Jun 13, 2016 | News, News/PR
The forest at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is sick, infected by invasive bugs and plants. Matt Moore, Kaleb Lique Naitove and Emily Baird of the National Park Service are some of the field medics trying to keep it alive. “We’re out here trying to...
Aug 5, 2015 | News, News/PR
Responding to a request from the U.S. Forest Service, the South Carolina Forestry Commission has sent seven of its wildland firefighters to join crews battling more than 30 wildfires around Redding, Calif. Accompanied by three members of the Horry County Fire Rescue...
