• For reference, that is almost the size of the city of Los Angeles and is larger than the infamous Thomas wildfire in California, which set the record late last year for largest in California state history. (weathernationtv.com)
  • Sonoma Technology showed that smoke from distant wildfires in Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and California impacted air quality in Louisiana. (sonomatech.com)
  • At the same time, the state of California is bracing for an extremely rare disaster. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom has officially declared a state of emergency, and Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo has done the same. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • Karuk and Yurok tribes in northwestern California, USA, are revitalizing the practice of cultural burning, which is the use of prescribed burns to enhance culturally important species. (springeropen.com)
  • Monday and into Tuesday, widespread rainfall will affect parts of Arizona, southeastern California, southern and eastern Nevada, Utah and perhaps northwestern New Mexico and parts of western Colorado. (bluemonsterprep.com)
  • Ventura, California - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced a proposal to list both species of western pond turtle, the northwestern pond turtle and the southwestern pond turtle, as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. (fws.gov)
  • The northwestern pond turtle occurs in Washington, Oregon, Nevada and throughout much of northern and central California. (fws.gov)
  • His computer terminal displayed a map of California and northwestern Nevada. (csmonitor.com)
  • The Bureau of Land Management, through its Boise Interagency Fire Center, its California State office, four district offices, and an Automatic Lightning Detection System, can pinpoint the time and location of every lightning bolt that crashes down in an area that includes the 18.6 million acres of California land under BLM management. (csmonitor.com)
  • We are also working with our partners in Montana, California (and northwestern United States) to secure additional resources, not just for the next five days but really looking at it through the lens of the next two months. (todayinbc.com)
  • In fact, this was covered in a story just last year about massive wildfires in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. (weathernationtv.com)
  • As search and rescue efforts continue, officials in Maui say the death toll from this week's massive wildfires on the island has risen to at least 80. (wboi.org)
  • At the time‚ the western region of North Carolina was getting charred by massive wildfires. (lehigh.edu)
  • When extreme floods, wildfires, or droughts hit a region, it's obvious that the labor market in that area will be affected. (northwestern.edu)
  • Moscow Times - themoscowtimes.com - Aug. 17, 2021) Russia's 2021 wildfires are already the largest in the history of satellite observations, burning across 17.08 million hectares of land, the Greenpeace Russia environmental group has said. (russialist.org)
  • Parts of Australia, southern Africa and northwestern North America saw cooler temperatures during 2021 compared to recent years as the effects of La Niña kicked in. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • May 21, 2023 Canadian fire officials issued issued a special air quality statement for much of Alberta and said wildfires this year alone have burned more than two million acres, according to the CBC. (ps3magic.de)
  • May 16, 2023 An air quality alert was extended Tuesday morning to cover the city of Calgary as smoke from wildfires burning across Western Canada has descended on parts of southern Alberta, replacing the. (ps3magic.de)
  • May 21, 2023 Officials in Colorado and Montana have issued air quality alerts due to smoke from dozens of wildfires in Canada that has drifted south into the United States. (ps3magic.de)
  • Temperatures leading up to the wildfire outbreaks were also warmer than average, and exceptionally dry air lingered overhead. (weathernationtv.com)
  • The memo focuses on "drought, wildfires, type conversion, and insect outbreaks" as the primary threat to older-growth stands and downplays the threat from timber harvesting to mature and old-growth forests and trees on federal land. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Average winds measured at 10 meters above the ground from April 12-13, 2018 for the United States. (weathernationtv.com)
  • For example, Wildfires raged in Montana National Park in 2018. (montanahelp.org)
  • Drought conditions in 2018 are extreme over the Four Corners region of the United States. (nasa.gov)
  • First, in spring 2018 Ebola emerged in the Equateur province in northwestern DRC. (cdc.gov)
  • At the end of April 2017, just 6 percent of the United States was afflicted by drought, the lowest level in 17 years of analysis by the U.S. Drought Monitor. (nasa.gov)
  • That summer, a headline in the U.S. Drought Monitor read: "'Exceptional drought' record for United States set in July. (nasa.gov)
  • By July 12, almost 12 percent of the contiguous United States was in an "exceptional" drought-including states as far flung as Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Florida. (nasa.gov)
  • Parts of the state remain in extreme drought, and water levels at the Lake Lanier reservoir have sunk 8 feet below full, according to authorities. (nasa.gov)
  • NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data from the United States Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (nasa.gov)
  • More than 64 million people are directly affected by drought in the Southwest and Southern Plains, and far more are indirectly affected because of the vast number of farms, orchards, and ranches that supply the rest of the United States. (nasa.gov)
  • Large regions from southeastern Central Europe to the northwestern Black Sea are also experiencing drought, according to the World Meteorological Organization. (ecoadvice.org)
  • In the United States, much of the west is facing its second or third consecutive year of drought, with fears of growing water stress. (ecoadvice.org)
  • Emergency Minister Bowinn Ma announced the ban - which begins at 3 p.m. and affects everywhere except Haida Gwaii - July 10 during an update about the wildfire season, which also served as a platform to prepare people for future measures tied to another threat: water scarcity in the face of worsening drought conditions. (todayinbc.com)
  • It's the drought condition in addition to the wildfire situation that is really causing concern and causing us to pay very, very close attention," she said. (todayinbc.com)
  • NIDIS is a multi-agency partnership that coordinates drought monitoring, forecasting, planning, and information at national, state, and local levels across the country. (drought.gov)
  • A drought early warning system (DEWS) utilizes new and existing networks of federal, tribal, state, local, and academic partners to make climate and drought science accessible and useful for decision makers and stakeholders. (drought.gov)
  • Nearly 15 tornadoes were reported Thursday in northwestern Kansas, southwestern Nebraska and eastern Colorado, according to weather service meteorologist Ryan Husted in Goodland, Kansas. (borreliosidilyme.it)
  • Christie Tucker of Alberta Wildfire said Friday that the May long weekend is typically when the province sees a spike in human-caused wildfires, adding that last year 97 wildfires started over the weekend under less extreme danger levels. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • This wildfire season is affecting all of us and firefighters appreciate every single action that reduces potential for fires here in Alberta," said Tucker. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • As of Friday afternoon, there were 93 wildfires burning in Alberta, 26 of which are out of control. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • A team from the northwestern United States is to arrive Saturday and head to a fire near Edson in western Alberta, said Tucker, adding that the government has requested 100 more troops from the Canadian Armed Forces to help with the firefighting effort. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • SMOKE: Alaska/Western Canada/Yukon/Northwestern U.S... Numerous wildfires across Alaska and the Yukon have produced a large area of moderate and high-density smoke reaching from the Bering Sea to British Columbia and extending eastward across the prairie of Alberta and Saskatchewan (joined by smoke from fires in northern Alberta) to Manitoba and beyond. (noaa.gov)
  • ALBERTA SMOKE MAP An online map shows parts of Alberta are covered in smoke on Wednesday as wildfires continue to burn in central and. (ps3magic.de)
  • take out in spanish Alberta wildfires Concerns about air quality, looting, well-being of troops Global National Alberta wildfires Smoke triggers air quality warnings across province. (ps3magic.de)
  • Farther south, in Elkwater , Alberta, which is 47 miles north of the Canada-United States border, temperatures reached 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) on May 22. (zenger.news)
  • According to AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Forecaster Paul Pastelok, this is the second-worst wildfire season on record for Alberta so far. (zenger.news)
  • We are being told that they were the deadliest wildfires in the entire history of our country, and now suddenly more wildfires are burning tens of thousands of acres in western portions of the state of Washington. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) - A wildfire in Portugal has covered an area of 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) and injured at least 11 people. (gdacs.org)
  • Lisbon, Aug 7 (UNI) A wildfire in Portugal has covered an area of 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) and injured at least 11 people, Jose Guilherme, the commander of the regional authority for emergency and civil protection of the Alentejo region, said Sunday. (gdacs.org)
  • Recalling last year's record wildfires that burned more than 10 million acres across the US and caused "orange skies that looked like end of days," Biden warned that this year "could be even tougher. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Around 9,000 firefighters have already been deployed to battle blazes across a dozen US states, in particular northern California's Lava Fire, which has scorched more than 17,000 acres. (climate-news-db.com)
  • This week it approved clearcutting thousands of acres in the Kootenai National Forest in northwestern Montana, including logging mature and old-growth trees. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • From 2011 to 2020‚ there were an average of 62‚805 wildfires nationwide‚ with 7.5 million acres impacted annually‚ according to the National Interagency Coordination Center. (lehigh.edu)
  • Sonoma Technology worked with the LDEQ to investigate whether a violation of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone concentrations in Baton Rouge on September 14, 2017, was caused by wildfire smoke. (sonomatech.com)
  • Since the study, U.S. air quality has faced many challenges, including early June's outbreak of Canadian wildfires that cloaked American cities from the Northeast to the Midwest in smoke. (consumeraffairs.com)
  • Central and Eastern Canada/Northern and Northeastern U.S... Wildfires in eastern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario have produced a significant area of smoke extending eastward to the Canadian Atlantic coast, southward over the northern and northeastern United States, and northward over Hudson Bay. (noaa.gov)
  • Also, some folks may have been a little concerned about the amount of smoke in the air, blown into our area from the wild fires burning in the North-Western United States. (vccc.com)
  • Smoke From Canada Wildfires Prompts Air Quality Alerts in Colorado, Montana. (ps3magic.de)
  • Alberta's air quality has reached frightening levels as the smoke from dangerous wildfires engulfs the province, posing significant risks to public health and. (ps3magic.de)
  • Southwestern United States: Smoke from the Whitewater-Baldy fire continues to be seen across the majority of central New Mexico through portions of west and central Texas. (noaa.gov)
  • Utah/Wyoming/Colorado: Several wildfires that started yesterday across central/southern Utah were producing a large amount of heavy smoke this afternoon and evening through much of central and eastern Utah and into northwest Colorado and southwestern Wyoming. (noaa.gov)
  • Another wildfire in southwest Colorado was also seen this evening producing a large amount of dense smoke and moving towards the northeast into central Colorado. (noaa.gov)
  • Northern Mexico: Numerous fires that continue to burn through portions of northern/northwestern Mexico can be seen producing a few large areas of smoke this evening. (noaa.gov)
  • President Joe Biden told a virtual meeting with governors from western states that "the threat of western wildfires this year is as severe as it's ever been. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Soaring temperatures in California's valley, mountain and desert areas raised fears of wildfires amid windy dry conditions, with lightning storms that could spark blazes forecast across several parts of the western US. (climate-news-db.com)
  • In the Climate Science Special Report issued as a part of the fourth National Climate Assessment, scientists note that the number of large fires has increased over the western United States from 1984 to 2011. (weathernationtv.com)
  • And while lightning does its share to start fires, the National Park Service says that 90% of wildfires in the US are caused by people. (theskidiva.com)
  • Rain has recently brought relief to several areas of New South Wales, though some 75 fires were still burning in the state on Saturday, down from well over 100 a few days ago. (theskidiva.com)
  • One such agreement is through the Great Lakes Forest Fire Compact made up of three US states and two provincial natural resource agencies to promote effective prevention, pre-suppression and control of forest fires in the Great Lakes Region of the United States and adjacent areas of Canada. (netnewsledger.com)
  • Fires have forced about 10,000 people from their homes in the province, with most of those in the northwestern Abitibi region and the eastern Côte-Nord region. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Across the Northern Hemisphere on the OMPS map, fires in northwestern Canada and northern Russia have a long reach. (nasa.gov)
  • Not only does the detection system quicken federal and state response to lightning-caused fires, it conserves limited firefighting resources. (csmonitor.com)
  • Meanwhile, today's campfire ban comes into effect with larger fires already prohibited across much of the province, against a backdrop of increased wildfire activity across the province, with more expected. (todayinbc.com)
  • Human-caused wildfires are completely preventable and divert critical resources away from lightning-caused fires. (todayinbc.com)
  • Cliff Chapman, director of provincial operations for British Columbia Wildfire Service, said B.C. currently lacks the capacity to respond to human-caused fires, including smaller fires that fall into Category 1. (todayinbc.com)
  • We have not had a large concern with human-caused campfires creating wildfires, but as Minister Ma mentioned we do not have the capacity to respond to fires that we can prevent. (todayinbc.com)
  • As Oregon Live reports , after five days of terrible destruction, firefighters have begun to contain the Eagle Creek wildfire in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge-one of several currently scorching the northwestern United States. (herokuapp.com)
  • Legault said an additional 200 firefighters are coming from France and the United States, and Quebec is also in talks with Costa Rica, Portugal and Chile as it searches for additional resources. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Chapman said 160 firefighters from the United States and Mexico are currently in B.C. Another 100 Mexican firefighters are set to join but not until July 17, he added. (todayinbc.com)
  • Since April 1, 904 wildfires have burnt more than a total of 1.15 million hectares. (todayinbc.com)
  • Officials are advising Albertans to consider postponing their long weekend plans as nearly 100 wildfires continue to burn throughout the province. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • Debris flows are also possible near recent wildfire burn scars. (bluemonsterprep.com)
  • Wildfires in the northwestern United States and Canada, in Greenland, and in Europe are often referred to in the media as 'unprecedented' in size and fury. (commondreams.org)
  • The capability of this approach was illustrated with a case study showing that aerosol resulting from wildfires in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada is transported across the continent to influence air quality in the Great Lakes region a few days later. (ametsoc.org)
  • In Canada, wildfire had burned a village off the map. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Summer like weather kicked off early in parts of western Canada, with several locations breaking high-temperature records and the wildfire season sparking earlier than normal. (zenger.news)
  • Thanks to a persistent ridge of high pressure stationed over the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, summer seemingly kicked off early in western Canada. (zenger.news)
  • Millions of people in western Canada and the northwestern United States were under heat alerts Wednesday as the region baked in record-breaking temperatures and police reported scores of deaths likely linked to the scorching conditions. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Cities across the western United States and Canada opened emergency cooling centers and outreach workers handed out bottles of water and hats. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Canada also has agreements in place to share resources for fire suppression with the United States. (netnewsledger.com)
  • AP) - An early May heat wave this weekend could surpass daily records in parts of the Pacific Northwest and worsen wildfires already burning in western Canada, a historically. (borreliosidilyme.it)
  • In late June and early July, heat built over northwest United States and southwest Canada. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • New York City and large parts of the tri-state area were placed on an air quality alert on Tuesday as wildfires continued to erupt across Canada. (thecoporatechronicles.com)
  • More than 160 wildfires have broken out in the province of Quebec, with at least 114 spiraling out of control as officials warned it was the worst fire season in Canada. (thecoporatechronicles.com)
  • THUNDER BAY - Wet weather over the weekend has led to the lifting of fire restrictions in both Thunder Bay and across Northwestern Ontario. (netnewsledger.com)
  • A Restricted Fire Zone that has been in place across Northwestern Ontario, except the far north, has been lifted effective 06:00 p.m. May 30. (netnewsledger.com)
  • Ontario provides firefighting resources outside of the province, and when needed brings in resources from other provinces, the territories or the United States. (netnewsledger.com)
  • On Monday afternoon, the municipality of St-Lambert, along the Ontario border in Abitibi, declared a state of emergency and ordered its 200 residents to leave their homes. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Food, water and shelter for northwestern pond turtles and southwestern pond turtles are becoming scarce across the western United States," said Paul Souza, director of the Service's Pacific Southwest Region. (fws.gov)
  • We are working alongside federal and state agencies and private landowners to implement conservation actions for northwestern and southwestern pond turtles, and we need everyone's support to help them thrive in the wild. (fws.gov)
  • The assessment found that although the southwestern pond turtle and northwestern pond turtle are likely to sustain populations in the wild in the near term, both species have increasing risk of extinction due to population losses, decreased genetic diversity, and a reduced ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions in the next half century, thus warranting listing as threatened under the ESA. (fws.gov)
  • Ongoing conservation efforts continue to support populations of southwestern pond turtle and northwestern pond turtle in the wild. (fws.gov)
  • On April 7, 2017, Governor Jerry Brown lifted the state of emergency in most areas. (nasa.gov)
  • In 2022, the Air Quality Life Index stated air pollution has shaved 2. (ps3magic.de)
  • This past May, InfernoGuard won another $150,000 as the VentureCat 2022 Grand Prize Winner at Northwestern University. (lehigh.edu)
  • They were inspired to start it up again by the raging wildfires that engulfed Australia between 2019-2020. (lehigh.edu)
  • The temperatures recorded this week are unprecedented -- lives have been lost and the risk of wildfires is at a dangerously high level," said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (climate-news-db.com)
  • And it wasn't just a global response that was needed: for the first time ever, in September 2014, Ebola was introduced to the United States by an infected traveler, illustrating why an outbreak anywhere can mean an outbreak everywhere. (cdc.gov)
  • The Quebec government is sending support to Saskatchewan to help the province tackle the 29 active wildfires in the province. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • The forecast for Fort St. John, in wildfire-embattled northeastern B.C., shows a risk of thunderstorms starting Friday night and stretching into Saturday. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • From NOAA by Tom Di Liberto Incredibly dry and windy conditions across western Oklahoma led to the rapid spread of numerous wildfires this month. (weathernationtv.com)
  • Since its creation in 2016, InfernoGuard has won numerous awards, including the $100,000 Climate Change Grand Prize during the Arizona State University Innovation Open earlier this year. (lehigh.edu)
  • Despite the tuition fee of the United States has been risen gradually every year, it does not stop people from getting a higher education. (uwb.edu)
  • This year, heat waves and wildfires burning in Europe will become more common and spread over a larger area. (ecoadvice.org)
  • An inconspicuous device no bigger than an iPhone could help reduce the risk from thousands of wildfires that ravage land across the United States every year. (lehigh.edu)
  • 10 yrs) response in fuel loads and vegetation composition after large and severe wildfires across five fire-adapted ecosystems in the western US, including Alaska. (frames.gov)
  • GDACS is a cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters. (gdacs.org)
  • They come a few months ahead of United Nations-led climate negotiations in Glasgow in November, effectively a moment of reckoning for whether the nations of the world will be able to agree on ways to rein in emissions enough to avert the worst effects of climate change. (climate-news-db.com)
  • While not all are affected equally, this tragic event is a reminder that, in the climate emergency, no one is safe, whether they live on a small island nation like mine or a developed Western European state, Mr. Nasheed said in a on behalf of a group of countries that call themselves the Climate Vulnerable Forum. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Wildfires in the spring across the Plains happen and are all too common. (weathernationtv.com)
  • However, some plumes appear to have moved south and east into the northern Plains of the United States, while others can be spotted over the Canadian Maritimes and as far east as Portugal. (nasa.gov)
  • Recovery is moving along slowly in the wake of last week's deadly wildfires in Maui. (wboi.org)
  • The National Weather Service noted that conditions have not been so favorable for the spread of wildfires in this region in the past ten years, according to the Associated Press . (weathernationtv.com)
  • Particularly, on April 17, strong winds fanned the flames, helping the wildfire advance five to eight miles. (weathernationtv.com)
  • Strong southerly winds associated with a sprawling storm system across the middle of the country helped fan the flames of wildfires across western Oklahoma during the middle of April. (weathernationtv.com)
  • There is broad recognition that fire management in the United States must fundamentally change and depart from practices that have led to an over-emphasis on suppression and limited the presence of fire in for. (springeropen.com)
  • Whiteface Mountain , home of two Winter Olympics in New York State, recently lost a lodge to fire, too. (theskidiva.com)
  • In the Kaibab National Forest north of the Grand Canyon, the Forest Service is logging thousands of centuries-old, fire-resistant ponderosa pines, despite the project's stated purpose of focusing on smaller trees. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Publications and presentations related to the 'Crown fire behavior characteristics and prediction in conifer forests: A state of knowledge synthesis' project. (frames.gov)
  • The Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Alaska project was designed to assess the effectiveness of maturing treatment projects in terms of previously defined risk reduction and fire behavior objectives in order to better understand the contribution of fuel treatments to the broader economics of wildfire management in Alaska. (frames.gov)
  • Later in the day, Quebec's wildfire prevention agency, SOPFEU, said the intensity of the fire in the area had exceeded the capacity of water bombers, but it was continuing to work to protect the community. (ctvnews.ca)
  • As of this morning, there are two large wildfires that have burned this month in Oklahoma. (weathernationtv.com)
  • Blowing dust in the United States: Arizona: A large area of blowing dust that has origins of just to the northeast of Flagstaff can be seen moving towards the northeast into portions of southeast Utah/northwest New Mexico and western Colorado. (noaa.gov)
  • Because lightning causes 70 percent of all wildfires in the Western United States, Ms. Roessler uses a large sextant to try to plot the direction and distance of the bolts that singe the area within a 60-mile radius of her lookout tower on Mount Hamilton. (csmonitor.com)
  • As Europe swelters under scorching heat, the effects of what has been a spell of record-shattering weather are clear to see in the wildfires raging in different parts of the continent. (gdacs.org)
  • Veterans were diagnosed with heat related illnesses in all 50 US states and there was an increase in the rate over time. (cdc.gov)
  • Combine that with recent precipitation across much of the northwestern and central parts of the nation, and the result is a much-wetter-than-normal map. (nasa.gov)
  • States that were scorched by wildfires in 2016-parts of the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia-have been saturated with recent downpours. (nasa.gov)
  • Northwestern alum Kari Neumeyer tells stories of the ecosystem management practices of Indigenous tribes and governmental agencies in the state of Washington. (northwestern.edu)
  • That is starting to change thanks to the Global Coral Microbiome Project, a collaboration among researchers at the University of Washington Bothell, Pennsylvania State University and Oregon State University. (uwb.edu)
  • This student-authored post is published by CPR in partnership with Medill News Service and the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. (cdc.gov)
  • He taught journalism ethics, radio reporting, multimedia storytelling and religion reporting at DePaul University in Chicago and at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. (wboi.org)
  • He holds a master's degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and studied at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. (wboi.org)
  • Chainsaws and logging are a problem for forests in the United States just as they are in developing countries like Brazil," said Steve Pedery with Oregon Wild. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • The secretary's memo ignores that across the West logging of federal forests causes far more greenhouse gas emissions than wildfire," said Niel Lawrence, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. (biologicaldiversity.org)
  • Authorities are warning that extremely heavy rainfall will trigger landslides and mudslides, and this is especially true in areas that have recently experienced wildfires. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • Located in the north-central part of the state, at the confluence of the Columbia and Wenatchee rivers near the eastern foothills of the Cascade Range, Wenatchee lies on the western side of the Columbia River, across from the city of East Wenatchee. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opposition leader Sergei Boyko won … in … Novosibirsk, despite an energetic campaign by … ruling United Russia Party. (russialist.org)
  • The Russian state has made 220 million hectares of land available under its program, double the total amount allotted under the Homestead Act. (russialist.org)
  • The products were disseminated via a Web interface to a small group of forecasters representing state and local air management agencies and the EPA. (ametsoc.org)
  • The Service is also proposing a 4(d) rule that allows activities that support conservation of both species, including wildfire suppression and management, maintenance of existing livestock ponds, habitat restoration, and non-native species removal. (fws.gov)
  • For example, the state of Washington implemented habitat management and predator control measures while raising northwestern pond turtles in captivity for release into the wild to help boost populations. (fws.gov)
  • This detection system is part of the BLM's Initial Attack Management System (IAMS), a space-age tool now used by the BLM and other federal and state agencies to quicken its response to naturally caused wildfires. (csmonitor.com)
  • Also Friday, the British Columbia government warned a return to more seasonal spring conditions is raising the risk of lightning-caused wildfires heading into the long weekend, after a prolonged hot and dry spell across much of the province. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • The dry and warm weather has created ideal conditions for wildfires to spark. (zenger.news)
  • That was rejected by richer countries, including the United States and Europe. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Emissions have been steadily declining in both the United States and Europe, but not at the pace required to limit global temperature rise. (climate-news-db.com)
  • Our thoughts are with anyone who has lost homes or businesses or experienced any loss as a result of these wildfires," Blair said. (sylvanlakenews.com)
  • But he is a very charismatic fish as well: for about 50 years, he was the main attraction of the ODFW's booth at the Oregon State Fair, where hundreds of thousands of fairgoers marveled at his beauty, size, and calm demeanor. (herokuapp.com)