However, the real benefits of fires come after the flames die down. Pine trees ... of flowers in the fire's wake. And many animals also take advantage of the freshly burned forest.

Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

Firefighters will continue to vigorously fight accidental wildfires, even in the region's least dense areas, a Suffolk fire ...

Clare Boerigter, a science writer specializing in wildland fire, and Jonathan Coop, a forest ecologist with Western Colorado ...

The Texas A&M Forest Service is giving away over 2,000 tree seedlings to Texas Panhandle residents in efforts to replant trees lost to wildfires.

The state’s plan to cut nearly 175 acres of pine plantations in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest was presented in a small ...