UNDERSTAFFED AND UNDERFUNDED. THAT IS HOW A TOP LEADER AT THE NORTH CAROLINA FOREST SERVICE DESCRIBES THE CURRENT STATE OF THE AGENCY AS THEY RECOVER FROM HURRICANE HELENE. HE SAYS IT’S BEEN A ...

Significantly reduced staff means significantly reduced capacity by the U.S. Forest Service, which will have noticeable impacts in the Roaring Fork Valley this summer. Kevin Warner, district ranger ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The North Carolina Forest Service is in Brunswick County working on the Sunset Road Fire. The Sunset Road Fire started late Friday morning, and by Friday evening, the fire ...

The Lolo National Forest will have a new supervisor this summer, following the retirement of Carolyn Upton at the end of 2024. Ben Johnson will replace Upton as the top official for the national ...

Dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years were being evicted Thursday by the US Forest Service, as it closed the area for a wildfire ...

severing the connections they’d built with one another and service providers. “People are just going to get shuffled from one park to the next city to the next forest without actually ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Service providers Chuck Hemingway and Eric Garrity, along with four other homeless people living off China Hat Road, have filed suit in U.S. District Court, seeking a ...

TELLER COUNTY — Teller County Commissioner Dan Williams said a Forest Service employee recently revealed the agency was facing a 40% reduction in firefighting capability in the state of Colorado ...

The United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service wants to make sure its firefighting barracks are full and announced the hiring of 1,100 permanent firefighter positions. Pay plans will ...

WISE COUNTY, Va. (WCYB) — The U.S. Forest Service has commenced work on rebuilding power lines in the Clinch Ranger District, located in Wise County, Virginia. According to Forest Service ...

Hiring and promotions were decided without regard to supervisory experience ... not at the other end of the spectrum. Given the background of the new Chief of the Forest Service, I am optimistic that ...

Witnesses told a Senate subcommittee that if the “Fix Our Forests Act” becomes law, a pared-back Forest Service may struggle to implement it. The Trump administration’s deep cuts in staffing ...