Some proposed changes, including to firefighting functions, have been criticized as seemingly intended to dismantle this ...

The Forest Service’s chief says the agency’s decisionmaking "has gravitated away from local forests" as the agency has grown in size.

Climatologists are predicting an active fire season after a dry winter. Firefighters around the west are standing ready. That ...

At Boxelder Job Corps outside of Nemo, a select group of students are working with the Forest Service-run program to seize ...

With a third of its staff gone, WRNF faces long-term challenges ...

Four research stations in Western North Carolina are operated by the U.S. Forest Service. USDA officials told NC Local that WNC facilities aren’t on the chopping block.

Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

On a cool morning in late April, blackened ground smoldered under ponderosa pines in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. The air at the southern Oregon site in the vast Ashland watershed had a ...

Fire officials report continued progress on Saturday, May 30 in the fight against the Seven Cabins Fire, burning in the Capitan Mountain Wilderness area. The fire remains at about 28,900 acres and is ...

Catch up on the life and career of Rep. Chuck Edwards and what led to an investigation into whether he created a hostile work ...

In the months since thousands of federal workers in Maryland were laid off or left their posts, many have had to find new ...