Staff reductions and budget cuts suggest the Forest Service could shift its science priorities from forest health to wildfire ...

Most notably, about 700 Forest Service employees terminated in mid-February’s “Valentine’s Day massacre” are red-card-carrying staffers, an agency spokesperson confirmed to ProPublica.

Teller County Commissioner Dan Williams said a Forest Service employee recently revealed the agency was facing a 40% ...

Before the Trump administration’s cuts, members of the civilian federal work force were in every state and in thousands of ...

Is this a time to dismiss thousands of trained firefighters? Most U.S. Forest Service employees have collateral firefighting jobs and are called on as fire season escalates. We believe that the ...

“They also would need to staff up and do this work, and as far as I can tell, they’ve been busy firing Forest Service employees with massive layoffs, and done bluntly and haphazardly at these ...

The Forest Service’s bulldozers, for instance ... Which brings us to January, when one of two wildfire mitigation specialists ...

The forests are happy as clams,” said Andy Stahl, executive director of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, a nonprofit. “If we humans cease to exist in North America ...