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Several hundred million U.S. acres of wildfire management are also conducted by state, county, and local fire management organizations. [6] In 2014, legislators proposed The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act to provide $2.7 billion fund appropriated by congress for the USDA and Department of Interior to use in fire suppression.
[4] [5] The department only acquires land from willing sellers and compensates local taxing authorities for the loss of property taxes. [5] The department has divided the counties of the state into eight administrative regions for the purpose of managing these lands and providing conservation services to the citizens of the state. [6]
Wildfire suppression in the United States has had a long and varied history. For most of the 20th century, any form of wildland fire, whether it was naturally caused or otherwise, was quickly suppressed for fear of uncontrollable and destructive conflagrations such as the Peshtigo Fire in 1871 and the Great Fire of 1910.
May 5—Two years after the most destructive fire in New Mexico history, the U.S. Forest Service has changed the planning process for prescribed fires and created new training for fighting fires ...
In the last several weeks alone, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Wisconsin have had air quality alerts triggered by more than 140 wildfires burning across ...
Fort Davidson is near the town of Pilot Knob, which is located in a plain between four peaks: Pilot Knob, Shepherd Mountain, Rock Mountain, and Cedar Hill. [1] Fort Davidson was preceded by an earlier structure known as Fort Hovey (later renamed Fort Curtis, after Major General Samuel R. Curtis), which was built by Union Army soldiers in 1861, during the American Civil War. [2]
The Wooldridge fire was the most severe in a rash of natural cover blazes in mid-Missouri since Friday, including multiple in Columbia. What to know about Wooldridge wildfire, rash of natural ...
The Arkansas General Assembly established the Arkansas History Commission through the Act of 1905 signed by Governor Jeff Davis on April 27. [2] Aligned with Department of Parks and Tourism since 1971, it was transferred to the Department of Arkansas Heritage on July 1, 2016, and renamed Arkansas State Archives.