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State Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Avon, said Tuesday he was not able to find the $2 million to pay for the new camera program this year. He also blamed Republican filibuster attempts that started Monday on other bills as a reason the camera program cannot advance before the legislative session ends Wednesday.

With the bulk of wildfire season on the horizon, officials in the Mountain West region are working to minimize risks. And sometimes they鈥檙e getting help from four-legged friends.

The U.S. Forest Service recently announced a 10-year plan that includes a dramatic increase in treating forests through thinning and prescribed burns. That plan includes treating 20 million acres of Forest Service land, and 30 million acres of other federal, state, tribal, and private lands.

Federal agencies spend a lot of time and money fighting increasingly extreme wildfires, but have limited resources for prescribed burns. Public-private partnerships can help. This year, the nonprofit Nature Conservancy partnered with the Forest Service and others to help burn and thin more than 150 acres of public lands in Idaho. Other, similar programs are cropping up all around the West.

Wildfire season is winding down across much of the Mountain West as cold weather moves in. But it鈥檚 the perfect time to set controlled, or prescribed, fires to burn unwanted dead trees and underbrush that fuel larger wildfires.

Sitting in front of a large computer monitor in the back of a Pilatus PC-12 airplane parked at the Centennial Airport, firefighter Adam Hanson says his work feels more important this year than it ever has before.

More than 150 scientists signed onto a letter urging people in the Western U.S. to avoid fireworks this Independence Day. 鈥淭he July 4th weekend in the United States this year will be like no other we鈥檝e experienced in the nation鈥檚 history,鈥� they wrote. 鈥淭he extreme heat impacting the northwestern United States and Canada this week comes on top of an already record-setting drought across much of western North America.鈥�

Colorado fire officials along with Gov. Jared Polis announced the 2021 wildfire season mitigation plan Thursday to fight fires earlier with more funds and resources on the ground, following the an unprecedented 2020 wildfire season with three of the largest fires in state history.

A new report could help you analyze wildfire risks to homes in your state, county or community.

A bipartisan group of Western lawmakers have signed onto a new federal bill that aims to reduce the damages of wildfire.