A new handbook calls for those who earn a living from the woods to embrace nontraditional methods to manage a changing ...

New research shows tropical forests can recover twice as fast after deforestation when their soils contain enough nitrogen. Scientists followed forest regrowth across Central America for decades and ...

Forest fog over the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southeastern Oregon. (U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Region/Flickr via Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — In a win for conservation ...

Wildfires may disappear from the landscape within weeks, but their hidden effects on the soil can persist for decades. An international research team led by the University of Göttingen, together with ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. Forest Service completed prescribed burns on more than 127,000 acres during the shutdown, largely keeping ...

The hiking trails most Forest Service rangers work on feel far removed from the politics that play out in Washington, D.C. But they’re now a high-stakes political arena in the second Trump ...

The U.S. Forest Service is going back to the drawing board with an update to the Northwest Forest Plan, a set of policies that broadly dictates where logging can occur on 25 million acres of forests ...

An environmental advocacy group has filed complaints under the Hatch Act against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Forest Service over what it described as “partisan” messaging ...

The U.S. Forest Service could close its Pacific Northwest headquarters in Portland, which oversees Oregon and Washington national forests, as part of restructuring plan. The U.S. Forest Service is ...

A Forest Service ranger with the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center acts as bear crossing guard as visitors look on. The Trump administration is planning to close some U.S. Forest Service offices in ...

The Trump administration’s early efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce has delayed the development of new systems to better allow federal wildland firefighters to communicate and the U.S ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the 1880s, giant cattle companies turned thousands of cattle out to graze on the ...