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The 2024 Texas wildfires were marked by several major fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle and part of Oklahoma. The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned an estimated 1,058,482 acres (1,653.878 sq mi; 428,352 ha) in Texas and Oklahoma and was completely contained on March 16, [ 1 ] becoming the second largest fire in US ...
Today, in the United States, it is not uncommon for suppression operations for a single wildfire to cost millions of dollars. Federal funding to manage wildfires comes from the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior. The combined annual appropriations from these two departments were around $1.6 billion from FY1994–FY2000.
“The problems of today were created many years ago when officials approved large-scale development in high-risk areas without adequate safeguards.” Fire crews douse houses along Pacific Coast ...
Impact Dates Impact Blue Mountains National Park: New South Wales Flinders Chase National Park: South Australia French Island National Park: Victoria 15 January 2020 [26] - Kanangra-Boyd National Park: New South Wales Kosciuszko National Park: New South Wales
Bird flu cases are still rising in the U.S. as the virus continues to devastate poultry farms.. More than 145 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the ...
Southeast Texas has been hit with heavy rains and rising rivers, leading to school closings, high-water rescues and mandatory evacuation orders in some areas. Here's a look at the situation ...
The southern hairy-nosed wombat is adapted to digging; it has a stocky and robust build, flattened claws, and five digits. [8] It is also plantigrade.The body length ranges from 772 to 934 mm (30.4 to 36.8 in) with a body mass ranging from 19 to 32 kg (42 to 71 lb). [8]
The goal of the Wombat Rescue is to return all wombats to the wild, even ones that are being hand-reared by humans. Wombats are herbivores and foragers, dig burrows in which to make dens, and have ...