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Posts Tagged "Black Forest fire"

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Posts tagged "Black Forest fire"

Center for Study of Wildfires, WUI Coming to Colorado State

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra satellite acquired this view of the Black Forest burn scar on June 21, 2013. Vegetation-covered land is red in the false-color image, which includes both visible and infrared […]

Costs of 2013 Wildfires Burns Through $1 Billion

When the Oregon Department of Forestry has to hire a private 20-man crew for firefighting, it costs $12,800 per day. (Photo by Bureau of Land Management) One billion dollars. Fighting wildland fires in 2013 just crossed that threshold for suppression […]

The State of the 2013 Fire Season: Uncertain, and It Has Only Begun

The 2013 Fire Season: Climate change. Aging tanker fleets. Sequestration. Layoffs. Fewer firefighter hires. Less equipment. Millions cut from fire preparedness funds. A tug of war over fire management policy. Dire predictions of uncontrolled wildfires. Welcome to the most uncertain […]

Black Forest fire already worst in Colorado history

The Black Forest fire is already the worst in Colorado history. And it’s heartbreaking to see Colorado Springs taking the brunt of a major fire for a second straight year. Less than a year after the destructive Waldo Canyon fire, […]

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