Some places have also become secondary old growth forests, meaning the forests were cut down at some point but have grown ...

BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — Dry, hot weather is shaping up to make an active spring fire season in West Virginia with nearly half of this year’s forest fires occurring in the last week.

Dry, hot weather is shaping up to make an active spring fire season in West Virginia ... Thursday, a forestry crew cut fire breaks around a mountaintop blaze above the small Boone County town ...