Kyle Dickman is a former editor at Outside and a former member of the firefighting crew known as the Tahoe Hotshots. He spent five seasons fighting wildfires in California. Dickman’s reporting has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. He's the author of On the Burning Edge, and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Turin.
Inside the most destructive wildfire in American history, and why it will happen again soon.
One of the worst tragedies in the history of firefighting prompted little change to a culture that regularly puts young lives at risk. A few seasoned veterans are working to fix that.
When fire is removed from the landscape, the forests grow thicker, and when the unavoidable fires return, they come as firestorms. These scientists think there is a universal "silver bullet" to...
Rattlesnakes don’t want to bite people. They don’t even want to be seen. Sometimes we just step on a piece of bad luck.
New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument has lost nearly all of its ponderosa pines due to fire—and the same thing could happen to the rest of our forests when they burn.
Breaking down just how catastrophic the 2017 California fires are.
In his first 11 days of office, Donald J. Trump issued 18 executive actions, ranging from a border wall to the Dakota Access and Keystone Pipelines to ending new federal regulations. The half-dozen...
As the Category Four storm threatened landfall last week, dozens of Urban Search and Rescue teams were deploying from around the country, mobilizing at lightning speed to save residents from the...
Team Rubicon began in 2010 with a unique dual mission: providing disaster relief and giving struggling American veterans a vital sense of purpose. The program has a reputation for ignoring best...
Utility bike: A bicycle built for hauling children, gear, or grocery bags full of organic quinoa and local honey.