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When a wildfire rampages through a sagebrush domain, restoring the landscape’s natural vegetation afterward is often a dicey proposition. But now...

New post-wildfire resource guide now available to help communities cope with flood and debris flow danger.

For all the great Federal records and remotely sensed products out there that have documented fires across the United States through the decades, it...

USGS researchers created an interactive Fuels Guide and Database, providing vegetation and fuel loading information and photographs for big sagebrush...

In the years since its beginnings in 2004, LANDFIRE has become invaluable to wildfire prevention and response, land management, and environmental...

The state-threatened western gray squirrel occurs in the northern Cascade Range, Washington, where long-term fire suppression has increased risk of...

The New Mexico Water Science center has proactively installed three rain gages at two existing streamgages and one reservoir gage within and...

It began with a tree falling onto a power line.

There were sparks, then very quickly a wilderness ablaze. In its first 13 hours, the Las Conchas Fire...

Invasions by exotic annual grasses, most notably cheatgrass and medusahead, are unambiguous threats to rangelands in the western United States...

Remotely-sensed data key to response in tracking danger in areas like Montecito