Fire is arguably the most important natural process in the West — our ecosystems can’t live without it, yet our communities struggle to live with it. For decades, firefighters have wrestled with this ...

Smokejumping appealed to Schoppe for the seasonality. She could work in the summer to afford a fall and winter in her home in Durango, where she could live her other life: mountain biking, skiing, ...

The July 7 story, “ Children carry on Ely father's smokejumping legacy,” provided a good introduction to the profession of forest-firefighting smokejumpers. In the summers of 1953 to 1956, while ...

Northwest Montana Posse of Westerners history organization presents a program titled “History of Smokejumping – A Continuing Saga" (Part 2 in a series) by Fred Cooper of Missoula, Monday, Sept. 19.

Nick Hampe has worked seven years in wildland firefighting, and remembers while working on an engine crew in Montana seeing smokejumpers arriving on a fire by air. “I was just kind of sold on maybe ...

WINTHROP, Wash. -- Red-faced and sweating, 10 recruits at the North Cascades Smokejumper Base gasp for breath as they drop for push-ups in the middle of a country road, just midway through their ...

Red-faced and sweating, 10 recruits at the North Cascades Smokejumper Base gasp for breath as they drop for push-ups in the middle of a country road, just midway through their morning 6-mile run.

Are we in the age of megafires? Many scientists think the era of megafires is upon us, and not just because of the massive fires Russia suffered this year. Three of the eight worst forest fire years ...

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