Before you run out to buy pricey fire starters or smelly lighter fluid, check your backyard. You're basically sitting on kindling - and gifting - gold.

A Bend Park and Recreation District worker uses a pitchfork to dump a load of plant debris into a burn pile at Shevlin Park in 2008. Debris burning will open across much of Central Oregon on Wednesday ...

Pile burns begin. The Ranger District will begin conducting pile burns in the Twisp River Drainage starting this week and will continue until snow gets too deep (usu ...

As winter weather approaches, local forestry companies are preparing for pile burning season — a critical but often misunderstood step in reducing wildfire risk across Summit and Wasatch counties.

WHAT WE KNOW: Geneseo residents have been able to take their yard waste to the city's burn pile at Prairie Park at no cost throughout the year. Tree companies have had unlimited access to the burn ...