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 ...

In a new study, researchers used more than 5 million measurements from individual trees across much of eastern North America and showed the rate at which introduced species are spreading has increased ...

The Trump administration is taking steps to boost logging in national forests across the United States, raising some concerns ...

The announcement included a grainy map of affected forests ... acting associate chief of the Forest Service, directs the heads of all nine forest service regions to develop five-year strategies ...

Wildfires have been burning in Western North Carolina since March 19, leading to states of emergency ... According to the N.C. Forest Service wildfire map, by 8:48 p.m. Wednesday, the fire had grown ...

His funeral was April 5, and representatives from the United States Army as well as the United States Forest Service honored him ... tree-covered region. While their white counterparts overseas ...

You can track the wildfires with our interactive fire map, which is updated hourly ... and smoke was minimal,” the North Carolina Forest Service said Saturday morning. More than 450 people from 15 ...

The ban, effective immediately, is a response to weeks of high winds, low humidity, and a growing number of fires across the region ... the United States Forest Service for the Chattahoochee ...

Since last Friday, the military has deployed some 5,000 service members and 146 helicopters to help combat the wildfires raging in the southeastern region ... between the United States and ...