By Austyn Gaffney / High Country News On a hot, dry, windy summer morning in…
Austyn GaffneyAugust 2, 2022
By Nathanael Johnson / Grist They assembled in the parking lot outside the ranger station…
Nathanael JohnsonJanuary 26, 2022
Legislature unites in support of massive cash infusion to step up firefighting, improve forests and…
Levi PulkkinenApril 16, 2021
The heavy wind woke Niria Garcia about 5 a.m. It whipped against her home,…
Iris M. CrawfordMarch 3, 2021
In Washington state, nearly 1 million homes sit near forests threatened by seasonal wildfires. And…
Levi PulkkinenOctober 19, 2020
As wildfires increasingly become the norm, farmworkers work in hazardous smoke conditions up and down…
Mara Kardas-NelsonOctober 6, 2020
Researchers estimate that nearly every American is exposed to wildfire smoke each year, even if…
Mara Kardas-NelsonOctober 1, 2020
Wildland firefighters battle increasingly long and hostile fire seasons and often rely on makeshift cloth…
Mara Kardas-NelsonSeptember 28, 2020
Despite back-to-back wildfires, Washington’s Methow Valley got no federal disaster mental-health support. So locals did…
Molly TaftSeptember 23, 2020
