Jun 25, 2018 | News, News/PR
Clemson University is holding students’ feet to the fire – literally – as it prepares them to take leadership roles in one of the most dangerous and underserved aspects in the forestry industry. Fire Tigers is a 15-member group of Clemson forestry and wildlife...
Aug 5, 2016 | News, News/PR
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam and the Florida Forest Service recently announced that more than 204,000 acres of Florida state forests were treated with prescribed fire last year. Prescribed fire is a safe way to apply a natural process, ensure...
Apr 18, 2016 | News, News/PR
In the U.S., most of the focus is on the catastrophic fires that regularly sweep across the western states, but wildfires actually occur more frequently in the Southeast, where rapid vegetation growth and fuel accumulation combine with frequent ignitions from...
Aug 10, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Florida Forest Service has announced that more than 246,000 acres of Florida state forests were treated with prescribed fire last year, the highest number ever reported by any state forestry agency in the country. The Florida Forest Service administers the top...
Oct 28, 2013 | News, News/PR
In an effort to reduce wildfire hazards on private lands, Texas A&M Forest Service is administering grant funding for prescribed burning on private property within 10 miles of a National Forest boundary through the U.S. Forest Service’s Community Protection...
