A masticator operator treats a brush patch at the Virgil Phillips Farm Park near Moscow in the fall of 2025. The fuels-reduction project, sponsored by the Latah Soil and Water Conservation District ...

Deschutes County is seeking solutions to one of Central Oregon’s longstanding wildfire challenges — what to do with the woody debris that is left over from fuels reduction projects.

PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM) started a new brush fire fuel reduction project in north Phoenix on Monday. The reduction is part of efforts to protect ...

CROOKED RIVER RANCH, Ore. (KTVZ) -- One of the key reasons firefighters were able to stop the spread of the fast-moving Alder Springs Fire this week was a fuels reduction project done in the area five ...

The City of South Lake Tahoe Fire Department Fuels Division completed several key Hazardous Fuels Reduction projects in 2025.

The Trump administration has paused federal fire-management projects funded by Biden-era legislation, a move criticized by senators from Arizona and surrounding states. Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark ...

An expansive fuels reduction project near the Forest Lake subdivision north of Bayfield will move forward next month as loggers begin treatment on 638 acres. The Grassy Mountain Shared Stewardship ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Forest thinning and hazardous fuels reduction treatments are underway at the top of Cold Creek Trail near South Lake Tahoe. The project involves thinning of overly dense ...

PARADISE — There are plenty of ways to reduce fire fuels, but only nine special masticators are made for quickly trimming down brush. One of them is on the Paradise ridge this week. Fuel reduction has ...

The Deschutes National Forest continues to log and conduct prescribed burns on the premise that fuel reduction (logging) makes communities safer from wildfire. This is delusional. Most of the ...

At a July 15 work session, the Summit Board of County Commissioners expressed concerns that a staff-recommended funding contribution to a fuel reduction project in the Frisco Backyard was too high.

Truckers have been looking for ways to reduce heavy-duty truck idling, with its wasted fuel and engine wear and tear, since the 1940s. Idle-reduction technology has advanced from engine block heaters ...