Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Vizzachero boarded a whale-watching boat on Saturday with his girlfriend, setting aside rumors that his U.S. Forest Service ...

Josh Watson and his chain saw are back in action. On Monday, five weeks after Watson and thousands of U.S. Forest Service personnel were mass-fired by the federal Office of Personnel Management as ...

Fire support staff who clear brush and fallen trees among 2,000 jobs cut in U.S. Forest Service. USDA, which oversees the Forest Service, blames firings on Biden administration and says firefighting ...

Wildlife biologist Ben Vizzachero conducts a waterbird count at Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge. He lost his job at the Los Padres National Forest as part of a wave of firings ordered by the Trump ...

Trash litters the ground of a vault toilet at the Kirkham Hot Springs day-use recreation site near Lowman in this 2021 file photo. With dozens of positions cut from national forests in Idaho, one ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — When Allison Borges was hired on as a weeds specialist with the U.S. Forest Service in May 2024, she was thrilled. She moved to Bozeman from her home in Washington state, spending the ...

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The U.S. Forest Service terminated approximately 3,400 probationary employees, including several in Western North Carolina working on Helene recovery efforts. In many instances, the agency cited ...

The U.S. Forest Service is likely facing half a billion dollars in budget cuts from Congress. This means the federal agency will have less money and staff for maintaining public lands. In western ...