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The National Forest Service will receive $490 million to prevent catastrophic wildfires across 11 fire prone landscapes. In Idaho, 1.5 million acres will be targeted in the Nez Perce-Clearwater Lower Salmon area.
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With the largest wildfire in state history, it’s no surprise New Mexico claimed the second spot with almost 900,000 acres burned. Idaho ranked fifth with about 440,000 acres.
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A new study reveals that publicly traded companies in the West rarely disclose risks posed by wildfires in their federal filings.
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Wildfires are growing larger and more destructive across the West due to climate change. Yet more people than ever are moving to fire-prone spaces near forests and grasslands. Some of the fastest housing growth in these areas is happening in the Mountain West.
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The location and proximity of homes destroyed in the Marshall Fire highlight the importance of fire mitigation efforts while building – and the possible long-term saving in planning for fire.
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Researchers found that those wildfires increase the “occurrences of heavy precipitation rates by 38%” in our region, according to their work in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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A recent webinar discussed the costs of fire mitigation, home insurance, the need for better communication with homeowners living in the WUI, and how towns can put this information into practice.
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The Center for American Progress published a pair of reports this month highlighting funding challenges for rural areas in the context of climate resilience, offering recommendations for how decision-makers can better design federal programs to be more inclusive of rural communities as disasters like wildfires and floods become more frequent.
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A new study shows wildfires are burning more high-elevation areas, and that’s impacting the snowpack across the West.
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The team of forest service specialists evaluate burned areas for risk of further damage. So far, they've found a lot of positive news in the burn scar of the Ross Fork fire.