U.S. Forest Service offices in Portland charged with wildfire prevention, scientific research, forestland management and ...

Erickson pointed out that Fort Collins’ locality rate is 30.52 percent, resulting in almost no payroll savings. And although Salt Lake City’s locality rate is 17.06 percent, Utah’s public land is ...

Her past five-and-a-half years with the Forest Service were preceded by a stint with the BLM. In 2015 she was selected to lead the BLM's D.C.-based National Conservation Lands program. However, at ...

The longtime top official of the U.S. Forest Service’s Region 1 — Forester Leanne Marten — will retire at the end of next week. Tim Garcia, one of three deputy foresters, will also retire.

Currently, the national fire incident map doesn’t show any reports in the states covered by the U.S. Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Region, but Douglas County is once again under a burn ban ...

Bruce Crockett, regional facilities program manager for U.S. Forest Service Region 1, and Region 1 spokesman David Smith, left, stand in the newly renovated staff headquarters at Fort Missoula on ...

National forests get about 21 percent of their activity in winter, according to Forest Service statistics. However, of those 152 million visits, 69 percent are to ski areas.

The Forest Service doesn’t have the money to build all the cabins proposed on its map, so now is the time to let them know which ones should be built. The agency is taking comments on the ...

USDA Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz today announced Kristin Bail will serve as acting regional forester for the Northern Region, effective March 31, 2025.Bail will temporarily succeed Regional ...

The Forest Service announced Tuesday that Bail would take over the top position at the Missoula-based Region 1, also called the Northern Rockies Region, from longtime Regional Forester Leanne ...