The Oak Fire, burning through rural communities in Mariposa County about 10 miles west of Yosemite National Park, is the kind of fast-moving blaze that firefighters had been worried about as ...

Nearly 3,000 responders are attempting to contain the Oak Fire burning in Mariposa, California, near Yosemite National Park that torched dozens of houses Monday afternoon. The blaze, which has covered ...

Oak trees are seen on the hills off Santa Rosa Creek Road, bottom right, between Cambria and Highway 46 in 2011. Sudden oak death is attacking oak and bay laurel trees throughout California. Cambrian ...

The Oak Fire has been burning since Friday afternoon in the mountainous terrain of Mariposa County, about 14 miles from Yosemite National Park’s Arch Rock entrance on Highway 140. The Oak Fire had ...

California black oak is in the red oak group of species, but its source of supply (it grows primarily in northern California and southwest Oregon), physical properties (it is weaker than most red oaks ...

California black oak is in the red oak group of species, but its source of supply (It grows primarily in northern California and southwest Oregon), physical properties (It is weaker than most red oaks ...

A lethal combination of low humidity, high temperatures and dry winds have fed California's largest wildfire this year so far. The Oak Fire erupted Friday in Mariposa County, displacing thousands in ...

Editor’s Note: For more on the fires, “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell” heads to California to discover how communities are learning to coexist with the frequent destruction. The Original ...

Overall cases of sudden oak death, the scourge of California woodlands for a quarter-century, were cut in half this year by the ongoing two-year drought. The latest annual survey by volunteers covered ...