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A collection of 11 posts

The Biodiversity Crisis

The Biodiversity Crisis

It’s not just trees and animals that suffer when flames vanish. Eighty percent of a forest’s diversity is in its understory.

When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It

Siskiyou County's wildfire crisis raises a fundamental question: what happens when a landscape loses the large herbivores that once helped shape it?

Canada’s Ability to Prevent Forest Fires Lags Behind the Need

Fighting Wildfires

Canada’s Ability to Prevent Forest Fires Lags Behind the Need

Canada’s capacity to prevent wildfires has been shrinking for decades because of budget cuts, a loss of some of the country’s forest service staff, and onerous rules for fire prevention, turning some of its forests into a tinderbox.

wild horse eating grass on a roadside

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

C.S. Lewis's 1944 Lecture "The Inner Ring."

The Wild Horse Fire Brigade offers a natural solution: horses graze the grass and brush on vacant wild-lands, and manage fuels that cattle avoid and that fuel extreme fires, creating safer landscapes without costly mechanical treatments or prescribed burns that often release even more toxins.

Updated Report on the Escalating Human and Economic Toll of Wildfire Smoke in the Western United States

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

Updated Report on the Escalating Human and Economic Toll of Wildfire Smoke in the Western United States

The staggering death and financial tolls of catastrophic wildfires in the western United States is now at EPIC proportions!

How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

Sheep Creek Ranch is one of Mast’s first projects, and the company has three more underway in Oregon and California.

How L.A. Bureaucracy Made It Harder to Clear Flammable Brush

California wildfires

How L.A. Bureaucracy Made It Harder to Clear Flammable Brush

A mishmash of government agencies failed to keep public lands safe from deadly wildfires, residents say

Politicians Tell Forest Service: Do More to Fight Wildfires

Politicians Tell Forest Service: Do More to Fight Wildfires

“Quoting the article below, “The Forest Service has estimated that more than 460 million acres are at moderate to high risk from wildfire.” NOTE: this article was originally published to APNews.com on April 28, 2023. It was written by Usan Montoya Bryan. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Lawmakers from several

You Don’t Need To Be A Rocket Scientist To See What’s Coming via Wildfires This Season!

You Don't Need To Be A Rocket Scientist To See What's Coming via Wildfires This Season!

“Fighting wildfires with wild horses. NOTE: this article is courtesy of William E. Simpson II. It is published here with permission The deadly 2018 Klamathon Wildfire. Photo: William E. Simpson II The recent pattern of alternative sun and rain has generated a prodigious crop of seasonal grass and brush, the

Leonel Martins Pereira, a shepherd in Vermelhos, Portugal, with the goats he tends at the end of a long day.

"Invasion Biology"

Scorched Portugal Turns to the Goat as a Low-Cost Firefighter

In nature, different animals eat different kinds of plants and there are specific species for every such “ecological niche”. Where native animals have gone missing, domestic goats can be used to replace animals that once ate brush and weeds, just as cattle replace herds of nomadic grazers like bison. Goats