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The Biodiversity Crisis

The Biodiversity Crisis

It’s not just trees and animals that suffer when flames vanish. Eighty percent of a forest’s diversity is in its understory.

The Fires of Corruption

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

The Fires of Corruption

Is America fighting wildfires instead of preventing them? This opinion piece argues that decades of suppression-focused budgets, prescribed burning, and wild horse removals have contributed to worsening wildfire conditions, and calls for a new approach

When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It

Siskiyou County's wildfire crisis raises a fundamental question: what happens when a landscape loses the large herbivores that once helped shape it?

Canada’s Ability to Prevent Forest Fires Lags Behind the Need

Fighting Wildfires

Canada’s Ability to Prevent Forest Fires Lags Behind the Need

Canada’s capacity to prevent wildfires has been shrinking for decades because of budget cuts, a loss of some of the country’s forest service staff, and onerous rules for fire prevention, turning some of its forests into a tinderbox.

How Donkeys Help Prevent Wildfires in Spain

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How Donkeys Help Prevent Wildfires in Spain

Meet Catalonia's newest and furriest firefighters: a herd of 62 rescue donkeys.

Restoring Biodiversity - 7/21/2026

Restoring Biodiversity - 7/21/2026

Federal and state officials are dramatically expanding sterile-fly releases. Feral pigs are tearing up America. Opposing wild horse rewilding is recklessly negligent. And more..

Wildfire management via horses

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

The 2026 Ranger Road Fire Proves Livestock Grazing Alone Has Failed — And Opposing Wild Horse Rewilding in Unsuitable Lands Is Recklessly Negligent

The 2026 Ranger Road Fire has reignited debate over how America manages wildfire fuels.

Why Wild Horse Fire Brigade Stands Alone Among Wild Horse Nonprofits

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

Why Wild Horse Fire Brigade Stands Alone Among Wild Horse Nonprofits

Wild Horse Fire Brigade is advancing a different vision for conservation—one centered on preserving free-roaming, naturally breeding wild horse herds.

Spain’s Wild Horses Help Prevent Wildfires But Survival Under Threat

Spain’s Wild Horses Help Prevent Wildfires But Survival Under Threat

Wild horses in Spain's Galicia region have played a key role in wildfire prevention by clearing undergrowth, aiding in ecosystem preservation. However, the herd has dwindled significantly.

Goats, Brush, Weeds and Wildfire

Goats, Brush, Weeds and Wildfire

Goats and cattle can reduce brush, control “weeds” and forbs, reduce wildfire and stimulate plant growth on forest floors and meadows

Meet The ‘Firefighting’ Donkeys of Spain

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Meet The ‘Firefighting’ Donkeys of Spain

Known as Doñana’s Firefighting Donkey Battalion, this unit is responsible for preventing wildfires in parts of Spain—all thanks to their seemingly bottomless appetites.

Report On The Ineffectiveness Of Forest Wildfire Mitigation Measures: Insights From The Bootleg Fire And Scientific Principles

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

Report On The Ineffectiveness Of Forest Wildfire Mitigation Measures: Insights From The Bootleg Fire And Scientific Principles

If we truly want less wildfires and toxic smoke, we need to embrace the hard truths that are arguably being suppressed for the sake of wildfire profiteers

Updated Report on the Escalating Human and Economic Toll of Wildfire Smoke in the Western United States

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

Updated Report on the Escalating Human and Economic Toll of Wildfire Smoke in the Western United States

The staggering death and financial tolls of catastrophic wildfires in the western United States is now at EPIC proportions!

Wolves and Wildfires

Wolves and Wildfires

There is a shocking level of ignorance shown in the debates about the problems we see with wolves and wildfires. Nobody seems to ask the single most important question: WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?

Increased Wildfires, Toxic Smoke & Imbalanced Ecosystems Leading to Depredation of Livestock by Apex Predators

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

Increased Wildfires, Toxic Smoke & Imbalanced Ecosystems Leading to Depredation of Livestock by Apex Predators

The loss of millions of critically important herbivores (deer, elk and wild horses) has resulted in several serious adverse impacts costing American taxpayers hundreds of $-billions annually.

LA FIRES: Can Saving American Wild Horses Help Reduce The Loss of Life And Economic Losses By Preventing & Reducing Wildfires & Toxic Smoke?

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

LA FIRES: Can Saving American Wild Horses Help Reduce The Loss of Life And Economic Losses By Preventing & Reducing Wildfires & Toxic Smoke?

The devastating grass and brush fueled wildfires in Los Angeles we are all witnessing may be just a glimpse of the upcoming summer in the western United States

Anthropologist Documents How Women and Shepherds Historically Reduced Wildfire Risk in Central Italy

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Anthropologist Documents How Women and Shepherds Historically Reduced Wildfire Risk in Central Italy

In the last several decades, large forest fires have increasingly threatened communities across the Mediterranean.

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"Invasion Biology"

A Plant That’s Everywhere is Fueling a Growing Risk of Wildfire Disaster

A ubiquitous, resilient and seemingly harmless plant is fueling an increase in large, fast-moving and destructive wildfires in the United States.

Wild Horses Coevolved with Wildfire on The North American Landscape

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Wild Horses Coevolved with Wildfire on The North American Landscape

Here is a good article with many valuable ideas on managing wild horses. These are controversial to say the least. Let us think about this issue holistically: Horses are COMPLEMENTARY to — not COMPETITIVE with — the wildlife, plants, and water of North America because these coevolved over the last 40 million