Controlled or prescribed fires have been used on Long Island since the 1995 Sunrise Fire near Westhampton to improve habitats ...

But in spite of the alarming billows of smoke, the fires were not catastrophic. Quite the opposite, ecologists argue: Long ...

The massive brush fire that impacted the East End of Long Island​ is no longer burning in Westhampton, but Forest Rangers worked all day on Sunday to contain the perimeter.

Across western North America, in millions of acres of pine forest, the story is the same ... for his semiweekly commute home to Vancouver Island—a trip that takes several hours and winds ...