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.

As Arizona heads into a potentially fiery summer, the U.S. Forest Service is dealing with budget cuts and new fire policies.

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

Scientists, foresters and some in the lumber industry are concerned about losing important programs that only the Forest Service can do.

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 ...

Colorado, has introduced a bill in Congress to prohibit mass terminations at federal land management agencies, including the ...

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 ...