Items Tagged with 'wildfire'

A series of wildfires over the past week have scorched nearly 850,000 acres of land in Kansas and Oklahoma, impacting cattle ranchers and other agricultural producers.

USDA has infused an additional $80 million into the U.S. Forest Service for Wood Innovation Grants designed to support forest lands across the country.

All levels of government need better tools to predict the location and timing of wildfires, which destroy property but also cause health problems for firefighters and the public, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee heard Wednesday.

The Agriculture Department is moving to improve its firefighting efforts in the West with more than $490 million in funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act.