The Irvine Ranch Conservancy, Crystal Cove Conservancy and Crystal Cove State Park are partnering for the third year to offer fire ecology internships for high school students, which leaders say ...

Indigenous communities practiced controlled burning with deep knowledge of local ecosystems, emphasizing the importance of fire in maintaining ecological health. For centuries, Indigenous peoples ...

Students will also learn basics of GIS and remote sensing used in studying forest and fire ecology. Students will conduct projects in small groups and present the findings at the end of the course.

a research scientist and fire ecology expert at the Conservation Biology Institute. “Most people have always thought you need to reduce vegetation, and I’m not suggesting that you don’t.

Experts in fire ecology will converge at the Ecological Society of America’s upcoming Annual Meeting in Long Beach, Calif., Aug. 4–9, presenting the latest research on the causes and ...

(Courtesy Antone Perucci) This fire ecology research suggests that anthropogenic, or human-made, fires would create a landscape dominated by open, prairie-like vegetation, while those fires ...

Brooklyn now had its own inadvertent experiment and study plot in fire ecology. On the ground in Prospect Park the night of the fire was F.D.N.Y’s deputy commissioner of public information ...