Two conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service alleging it unlawfully entered a contract to harvest timber near the ...

MountainTrue and the Center for Biological Diversity are suing the U.S. Forest Service because of unannounced logging near the Nolichucky River.

Despite the government shutdown during prime prescribed burn season across the American West, the Forest Service managed to ...

With budget battles still to fight on Capitol Hill, the U.S. Forest Service will continue to hire for its highest priority positions, albeit cautiously. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore told the ...

The U.S. Forest Service says it won’t be hiring temporary seasonal workers next summer, citing a tight budget for the coming year. The agency will still hire seasonal staff to fight fires, but ...

HOT SPRINGS -- Thousands of acres of the Ouachita National Forest are being burned off as part of a series of prescribed fires, the U.S. Forest Service posted on social media Monday. Six fires were ...

A generation ago, a spate of fatal crashes of planes and helicopters the Forest Service hired to fight wildfires spurred the agency to start having its own inspectors to make sure the aircraft could ...

The National Association of Forest Service Retirees is urging Congress to reject moving their former agency to the Interior ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is making up to $34 million in funding available to support innovation and jobs in the forestry sector while supporting healthy forest ...

Cuts to the U.S. Forest Service may gut the workforce of the Daniel Boone Forest from north of Cave Run Lake to the Red River Gorge. Warner Vanderheuel, president of the Forest Service Council, a ...

Victoria Porter spent two days last year fighting a small forest fire that sprang up from a hunter’s campsite in the Montana wilderness. Porter, 28, helped dig a fire break to prevent the blaze from ...

Forecasted weather conditions have put Oklahoma’s firefighters on alert for Friday. The Oklahoma Forestry Service says its roughly 100 firefighters will be prepared to work with local departments, ...