With little state support, villagers are left to battle wildfires armed with little more than shovels and bottles of water ...
In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots ...
The Rio San Juan Wildlife Refuge in southern Nicaragua is part of the best-preserved humid forest in Central America, but illegal invasions, deforestation and mining have destroyed nearly a third of ...
Courtney Schultz received funding from the US Forest Service, Joint Fire Science Program, and National Science Foundation for her research on US forest policy Forrest Fleischman received funding from ...
During the twentieth century, the United States declared war on wildfires. In 1935, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service announced “an experiment on a continental scale”: every blaze was to be put out ...