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The national organization representing retired Forest Service employees is pushing back against a newly proposed federal wildfire agency that would take firefighting away from the forest agency.
“City, County, and local service providers would be best equipped to share transitional support services and plans.” U.S. Forest Service officers let trucking and logging vehicle pass through ...
The project gathered more than 1,400 comments during the Forest Service environmental review, which began in 2017. The initial plan for new Mad Rabbit trails drew criticism from Colorado Parks and ...
Prescribed burns conducted last week by the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday and Friday in the McKinnis and Harrison Creek areas on Rabbit Ears Pass went “smoothly ... or, UAS, to map the area and ...
So he was dismayed to learn that a section of the trail in western North Carolina could remain closed for more than a year because the National Forest Service wants that timber left alone so ...
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Joe Neguse have invited two former Forest Service employees who were among the 3,400 nationwide cuts the Trump administration made to the federal agency in ...
“Obviously Saturday was pretty dry and warm and we had some pretty significant wind gusts as well so that’s really the perfect recipe,” said North Carolina Forest Service official Philip Jackson. The ...
The Associated Press reported last week that the Trump administration is rehiring a small number of Forest Service positions ... Karen Roth, founder of the Cameron Pass nordic ranger program, points ...
CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - The North Carolina Forest Service is handling multiple wildfires in Eastern Carolina on a day where the fire risk is high Officials report 23 fires so far over 133 ...
Some local U.S. Forest Service workers who received notices of termination have been reinstated. The National Park Service has also reversed course on hiring seasonal workers, the agency said.
Forest Service Chief Randy Moore will retire effective March 3, according to an email sent to agency staff Wednesday and viewed by POLITICO. Moore wrote in his staff email that the past several ...
Maintaining the country's forests takes an army of Forest Service workers, but recent job cuts have reduced the number of its soldiers, which some say could lead to unintended consequences.