The Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab Shuts and the Smoke Forecast Gap Runs Into Fire Season
The federal lab that produced the smoke-plume models the West relied on closes its doors as the Sierra fire window opens.
Dara Osei
Bureau: London
The Helium Reserve is Still Homeless and the Professional Society Push Runs Into the Summer Meeting
The American Chemical Society wants a federal helium reserve back; the next move is the August summer meeting and the calendar is closing on the He-3 inventory.
The Forest Service Fifty-Seven Lab Closures Show Up in the Spring Fire Season
The Forest Service shut fifty-seven research stations and labs; the spring fire season is the first window in which the absence is operational.
Reclamation Six-E Buys Time Not Solutions and Powell May Drop Below the Minimum Pool
The first-ever Section 6E invocation is week one; KVNF named the verdict — the Bureau bought time, and the dam may go below 3,490 feet anyway by August.
The Pineland Fire Holds Below the 40,000-Acre Threshold With 32,500 Burned
Containment is now 40 percent on roughly 32,575 acres, the evacuation order is lifted on the Echols side, and the threshold the paper has watched holds for a fourth straight day.