The fire consumed the hillside, charring trees and bushes and homes on its way to devastating 70,000 acres in northern California. But Sean Jennings’ house did not burn. Its reddish stucco walls ...

If you live in a single-family house, chances are it’s made, or at least framed, with wood.Older homes may well also have a wood roof, and perhaps a wood deck. There might be a neat stack of ...

Leslie Brodhead made it sound like some kind of accomplishment to cut down healthy, naturally growing trees in what’s supposed to be the wild (if it wasn’t for homes like hers in the wa… ...

President Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tracy Stone-Manning, once touted her husband’s suggestion to let houses caught in forest fires "burn." Stone-Manning ...

How to Prevent Forest Fires by Building Cities With More Wood. An entrepreneur in Washington state has a plan to reduce wildfire risks, promote low-carbon buildings and boost the local economy, ...