Los Padres National Forest

Repairs of mostly forestland start this week in areas impacted by the over 38,000-acre Lake Fire in Santa Barbara County.

An active, fast-moving fire has burned more than 20,000 acres in Santa Barbara County since Friday, but putting out the Lake Fire is a challenge for response crews.

An active fire that started on July 5 near Zaca Lake in Santa Barbara County has now burned over 38,400 acres as of July 14, leading to evacuations in nearby areas.

The US Forest Service has canceled oil company Carbon California’s applications to drill and frack in the Sespe Oil Field, in Ventura County.

Last week the Chumash Fire Department in Santa Ynez was honored by tribal leadership and the U.S. Forest Service for their work during fire season. The department was established to train and prepare firefighters for working with the forest service.

The proposal would reintroduce prescribed burning to more than 230,000 acres of forest in Kern, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.

In this episode of Issues & Ideas: Wildfire season has arrived in California, and managers of a preserve in Monterey County are hoping to change the way…

The US Forest Service plans to help prevent wildfires in the Los Padres National Forest by cutting down trees and chaparral across a 755-acre area of the…

All evacuations have been lifted in Santa Barbara County even as firefighters—and the rain—continue to work on putting out the Cave Fire, which started…

The US Forest Service is taking additional public comment this month on a controversial plan that will relax permitting for new logging and forest…