Frank Carroll: By the time August arrives in the American West, the sky tells the story — a sickly orange haze, emergency rooms full of wheezing patients, and fires that could have been contained at ten acres managed into ten thousand.

In this article David L. Auchterlonie shows The WHO, the Lancet, the National Academy of Sciences, and dozens of peer-reviewed studies have reached the same conclusion: wildfire smoke is carcinogenic.

Jim Petersen & Julia Petersen: For years, westerners reached for a blunt comparison: breathing heavy wildfire smoke felt like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. The science has since caught up — and the reality is worse.

Bob Zybach: The 2022 Cedar Creek Fire didn't have to burn 127,311 acres. It started at two acres, was deemed too risky for early attack, and spent a month growing unchecked before exploding on east winds in early September

Dana Tibbitts: Tahoe Forest Products LLC was registered in Nevada just weeks before the Caldor Fire charred 222,000 acres — conveniently creating a massive supply of salvage timber selling for pennies on the dollar.

Nadine Bailey stood before the 30th anniversary review of Clinton's Northwest Forest Plan with a simple question: "Why would you aspire to a plan that was an abject failure? We burnt up the very habitat we were saving from the loggers."

Royal Burnett never testified before Congress, but he’s walked in the ashes of hundreds of Northern California homes and watched Federal Incident Management Teams willfully burn tens of thousands of acres under the guise of "resource benefit"

Frank Carroll writes about the U.S. Forest Service is relocating its headquarters, closing regional offices, and rebuilding around 15 state directors — the most sweeping restructuring in its 121-year history.

William Derr, a retired Forest Service employee raised alarms about the Station Fire review — alleging missed witnesses, inadequate suppression, and a "burning island" left to smolder inside the containment perimeter