wildfires

The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Arizona Strip Field Office is planning to burn slash and vegetation debris in an area located 30 miles south of Fredonia, Arizona, in the Kanab Creek riparian corridor. High winds which impeded the completion of the burn project in October has necessitated postponing the burn into the month of November. T...

Homeowners living near the Gun Range Fire burn scar will have to keep a close eye on the sky for the next decade. The Utah Division of Emergency Management is sending staff members door to door this week to help evaluate the risk of flash flooding caused by the fire...

Authorities are warning people to not fly drones in the area where crews are battling the Alaska Fire in Utah County. Yesterday morning, fire officials say a drone prompted them to ground aerial resources battling the wildfire. The Alaska fire has burned more than four-hundred acres between Provo and Springville, close to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail...

If you’re traveling up north the Utah Division of Environmental Quality says Salt Lake County's air is unhealthy and is expected to get worse. DEQ spokesperson Donna Kemp Spangler says the county is being hit with high temperatures and smoke from wildfires. Y...

The Utah Legislature is considering a concurrent resolution that calls for better federal forest management. House Concurrent Resolution 5 was passed out of committee on Friday with an 11-2 vote, but not until after amendments were made to strip language concerning climate change from the resolution.  ...