A controlled or prescribed burn, also known as hazard reduction burning, backfire, swailing, or a burn-off, is a fire set intentionally for purposes of forest management, farming, prairie restoration ...

Prescribed fires are a critical tool to preventing catastrophic wildfires. Such controlled burning helps reduce the intensity ...

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — Understanding fire, how it will travel, what it will travel through and what the ambient conditions will do to it is ... them work at a controlled burn this week.

Indigenous groups have been teaching volunteers their controlled burning techniques. The impacts of wildfires are being felt more than ever — environmentally and financially. More from News ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) – The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is gearing up for its controlled burn season, which runs January through August. People who live in and near longleaf pine forests from the ...