Wildfires

UPDATE: Officials with the Forest Service say the scoopers were called out to fight large fires in Alaska.The Black Hills is temporary home for two U.S.…

SDSU professor Mark Cochrane, a wildfire expert and senior scientist at the Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence joins Innovation to discuss living…

South Dakota has seen two large wildfires this year and the traditional fire season hasn’t even started. But the state fire meteorologist says the…

So far this year there have been no major wildfires in South Dakota, but the state has seen a blanket of smoke drifting in from fires burning across the…

Firefighters are preparing for forest fire season in South Dakota. The Box Elder Job Corps is hosting an intensive firefighting course. Land management…

Fire is one of the management tools used at Wind Cave National Park in the southern Black Hills to help maintain the health and natural balance of the…

May 3-10 is Wildfire Awareness Week to raise public awareness of wildfires and promote actions that reduce the risk from wildfires to homes and…