Calif. mountain towns are surrounded by public lands. They're already dealing with the fallout of cuts to the U.S. Forest ...

Western North Carolina is home to more than a million acres of national forest controlled by the Forest Service. In addition, ...

Workers who maintained trails, removed combustible debris from forests, supported firefighters and secured money for wildfire ...

Lyle Olsen has met so many decent, dedicated, goodwilled people since his first seasonal job with the U.S. Forest Service in ...

The U.S. Forest Service fired thousands of workers in the past week, including firefighters, biologists, and disaster recovery experts. Many were directly involved in western North Carolina recovery ...

The Outdoor Alliance issued a press release flagging the disastrous effects on outdoor recreation due to federal budget cuts.

Though snow is still on the ground, with months left of winter, this is typically the time when federal wildland firefighters apply for seasonal jobs, are interviewed and ...

President Trump and Elon Musk have spent several weeks slashing federal jobs — often in defiance of legal limits — and there ...

Sandee Nezhad spent the last nine years as a U.S. Forest Service employee preparing Boundary Waters paddlers for launch into the wilderness. She went through safety tips and signed off on permits.