Building and running a clean fire in an offset smoker is a key to creating great BBQ. Wood is the first ingredient in any BBQ cook. Maintaining an efficient, clean fire will lead to better taste ...

After years of questionable policies, climate change and growing populations, wildfires have gotten worse in the western U.S., and around the world. That’s driven a push to use tools like thinning and ...

Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within ...

Prescribed burns are common tools for land managers, but researchers say Indigenous burning went beyond that, using fire as a land stewardship tool to care for the environment. Tree rings are ...