A national strategy to increase timber production and use emergency authorities to protect forests from fire, insects and ...

The U.S. Forest Service used incomplete, inconsistent and misleading data to justify a dramatic expansion of logging in western North Carolina’s national forests over the coming decades, according to ...

A new concert travel study by REVERB looks at the impact of fan travel to shows, namely emissions from driving versus taking ...

Sheehy and cosponsor Senator Alex Padilla, D-California, introduced their 300-word “ Fit for Purpose Wildfire Readiness Act ” ...

With the summer tourism season on the horizon, a bipartisan group of Western Slope state lawmakers is warning of “serious ...

The U.S. Forest Service’s Women in Wildland Fire Advisory Council has been put on pause indefinitely, according to an agency spokesperson. MTPR previously reported on the women-led group that tried to ...

Controlled burns are planned throughout the Salmon-Challis Forest in the next couple of months, as weather allows. The burns are designed to reduce overgrown vegetation and help reduce threats ...

Air Traffic Organization (ATO), is resigning after four decades of federal service. Arel has led the ATO, which oversees the nation’s air traffic control system, through a period of growing ...

Combined, it is an area larger than California and amounts to 59% of Forest Service lands. Most of those forests are considered to have high wildfire risk, and many are in decline because of ...

The Secretarial Memo issued by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins established an "Emergency Situation Determination" and will allow the Forest Service to bypass many existing ...

ASHEVILLE - The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to release plans to increase timber production in national forests, including Western North Carolina's wide and expansive Nantahala-Pisgah ...

Fallen trees and debris from Tropical Storm Helene in the Wilson Creek area of the Pisgah National Forest ... organization has filed since early 2024. In February 2024, the SELC opposed a 15-acre ...