Dana Tibbitts of the National Wildfire Alliance urges a reset of U.S. wildfire policy, calling for aggressive suppression, science‑based fuel reduction, and protection of communities and forests.

Oregon Sen. Kathleen Taylor and Rep. Court Boice come from very different districts, but they’ve built a strong partnership around one shared priority: protecting Oregonians from catastrophic wildfire

Frank Carroll argues that the U.S. Forest Service's Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) were designed as planning tools — not preauthorized burn zones. But in practice, many communities fear

In Part Two of “License to Burn,” Dana Tibbitts traces how the 2021 Caldor Fire turned from a small brushfire near Grizzly Flats into a catastrophic inferno, fueled by Forest Service inaction, outdate

This essay by wildfire experts Roger Jaegel and James Montgomery asks the questions no one else is asking: Who made the decision to light those fires? Did they ignore the weather reports, or did they

Rachel Hall writes about her forty years of field observation in Southern Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest reveal a forest in crisis. Forest Under Stress investigates the root causes

“When Controlled Burns Go Bad, The Deadly Lessons of California’s 2020 North Complex Fire”. This article by Dr Bob Zybach and Frank Carrol examines the 2020 North Complex Fire in northern California,

Wayne Knauf, a former U.S. Forest Service timber and fiscal management official, warns that forest policy has drifted far from its foundational mandate. The 1897 Organic Act established National Forests to support the people living near them.

Eldon "Tope" Knauf argues that effective forest management depends on robust rural manufacturing infrastructure—including sawmills, pulp mills, and byproduct facilities—and that the loss of these industries is leaving billions of board feet of timber without viable markets, driving up housing costs and leaving fire as the only remaining forest management tool.

In 2004, this op-ed Roger Jaegel warned that halting fuels management on National Forests in Trinity County, California would have catastrophic consequences. Two decades later, the prediction has come