MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas State University and the Kansas Forest Service have announced plans to build a $5 million shared facility. This facility will boost current efforts to provide critical ...
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A group of 15 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students have been working throughout the spring to receive their red card, certifying them to become basic level wildland ...
SEATTLE — Josh Watson and his chain saw are back in action. Last Monday, five weeks after Watson and thousands of U.S. Forest Service personnel were mass-fired by the federal Office of Personnel ...
MISSOULA, Mont. — The Northern Region of the USDA Forest Service is hiring permanent wildland firefighters for the 2025 wildfire season across national forests and grasslands in Montana, north Idaho, ...
A U.S. Forest Service employee from La Grande who was among more than 60 workers from the agency fired in February as part of the Trump administration’s effort to trim the federal government said he ...
This March, I was one of 75 AmeriCorps NCCC members to complete my service term with the inaugural Forest Corps cohort. In the last nine months, I’ve fortified lands against the threat of forest fires ...
SEATTLE (AP) — Trump administration funding cuts and a loss of federal workers who help support wildland firefighting continues to make planning for the upcoming wildfire season a challenge, according ...
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 ...