If I could have only four tools to conduct prescribed burns or fight wildfires, they would be matches, a drip torch, an accurate weather forecast and a power sprayer with a water tank transported by a ...

Nick Aschenwald, with the Montana DNRC, uses a drip torch to ignite bunch grass during a prescribed burn at Lone Pine State Park in Kalispell on Thursday, April 7. Held in conjunction with Montana ...

Now that Memorial Day activities have kicked off the summer season, families will be spending more hours in the backyard after the sun goes down. A great way to add ambience and elegance to the area ...

Department of Natural Resources firefighters from Colville head out Tuesday to do a 108-acre prescribed burn on a hillside near Springdale, Wash. Giving the natural forest an assist, Department of ...

A firefighter from the Stanislaus National Forest Hotshot crew used a drip torch to eliminate fuels between the fire and Crescent Mills, near the town of Greenville. Lassen National Forest video ...

On a warm, dry day last week, prescribed burn coordinator Zachary O’Donnell ignited his drip torch and passed it to the landowner. They stood on the edge of a forest, somewhere between Marion and Old ...