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Byline: Allison Salerno UNAKA MOUNTAIN, Tenn. - On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply disappears. For lengthy stretches, it lies under [...]

Byline: Christopher Cann, Josh Meyer, and Ryley Ober, USA TODAY As the Federal Emergency Management Agency temporarily halted hurricane aid operations in North Carolina because of security concerns over the [...]

Byline: Brianna Sacks, Dan Lamothe LAKE LURE, N.C. - Federal emergency response personnel directed employees operating Saturday in hard-hit Rutherford County, N.C., to stop working and relocate due to concerns [...]

Byline: Brianna Sacks, Dan Lamothe LAKE LURE, N.C. - Federal emergency response personnel on Saturday had employees operating in hard-hit Rutherford County, N.C., stop working and move to a different [...]

Byline: Chris Pietsch, Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard, USA TODAY NETWORK The northern spotted owl can't get a break. The Pacific Northwest bird's survival is in peril due to a combination of [...]

Byline: Eve Chen USA TODAY Anyone who loves the great outdoors has likely heard the phrase Leave No Trace. It sounds simple enough, but it's more than just picking up [...]

Byline: Bryan Pietsch One of the victims killed in the McKinney Fire, California's largest blaze this year, was a woman in her 70s and a 'beloved, long-time' wildfire lookout, the [...]

Byline: Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY Two people in the McKinney Fire's path were found dead as California's largest wildfire of 2022 burned more than 50,000 acres in Klamath National [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY The U.S. Forest Service team that arrived in the Santa Fe National Forest on April 6 had a plan. They would set a small fire [...]

Byline: Karin Brulliard ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST, Colo. - High up in the forest-fringed meadow, there were hundreds of tents, many guitars and drums, a bit of nudity, whiffs of marijuana, [...]

MORA, N.M. -- It started small, with a team of federal employees using drip torches to ignite a prescribed burn in the Santa Fe National Forest, aimed at thinning out [...]

Byline: Joshua Partlow When the U.S. Forest Service started an intentional fire in the Santa Fe National Forest in early April, the aim was to reduce the risk of a [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow The Biden administration has reached a historic agreement to give five Native American tribes more say over the day-to-day management of a national monument in Utah, marking [...]

Byline: Anna Phillips Not far from the town of McKenzie Bridge, Oregon, on the western slope of the Cascades, stand towering groves of trees that have survived more than a [...]

The Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires, which merged, started as prescribed burns intended to prevent wildfires, federal officials said. A wildfire in northern New Mexico that destroyed at least [...]

Byline: Zach Urness, Salem Statesman Journal, USA TODAY NETWORK SALEM, Ore. - The U.S. government committed a record-setting amount of money to fighting wildfires this year during what promises to [...]

Byline: Kasha Patel and Jason Samenow Strong winds are rapidly spreading a fire about 14 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz., as authorities call for hundreds of homes to be evacuated. [...]

Byline: Joe Sneve, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, USA TODAY NETWORK SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A federal judge won't force the National Forest Service to allow fireworks at Mount Rushmore in [...]

It's up to the U.S. Supreme Court. BIG IVY, N.C. -- I live in Appalachia, and on Sunday mornings I hike the Appalachian Trail across the mountains I call home. [...]

The hike to Hanging Lake, just east of Glenwood Springs, Colo., is short and steep, rising more than 1,000 feet in just over one mile. The payoff vista -- an [...]

Byline: Andrew Hay Abstract: After decades of extinguishing blazes within hours, forestry services are now starting them to reduce fuel that can turn a wildfire into a catastrophe It was [...]

Byline: Jim Furnish I was the supervisor of Oregon's Siuslaw National Forest in 1996 when a huge landslide caused by shoddy road construction sent tons of mud and debris into [...]

The United States Forest Service's most important job is balancing the many needs and uses of the 193 million acres of public land it manages. But the Trump administration is [...]

For the past 10 years I've been documenting the fate of the least protected and most at-risk portion of the national commons: the roughly 450 million acres across 12 Western [...]

Byline: Jennifer OldhamHikers climbing above tree line in Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest nowadays encounter a startling landscape: the gray skeletons of millions of dead lodgepole pine.It's on these slopes [...]

Byline: Dino Grandoni and Juliet Eilperin WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday curtailed a detailed review of how cordoning off more than 234,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land [...]

Byline: Dino Grandoni The Trump administration has decided to shorten an environmental review aimed at determining how preventing mining on 230,000 acres of public land in Minnesota would affect a [...]

Byline: Christa Case Bryant Joe Adams had seen his share of fire. In Iraq. In Afghanistan. But never across the glassy Panguitch Lake in southern Utah, where he'd grown up. [...]

Byline: Christina Beck Extremely dry conditions in California caused yet another fire this week, with a fire in Santa Clarita burning a path through 5,500 acres this weekend. First reported [...]

Byline: Jessica Mendoza On a chain-link fence along Route 39 hangs a homemade poster, peppered with hearts, thanking firefighters and police. The sign, one of a handful scattered across town, [...]

Byline: Lucy Schouten Forest officials are beginning their forest fire preparations early this year to try and head off what they fear will be a bad fire season due to [...]

COMANCHE NATIONAL GRASSLAND, Colo. -- On a dry, chilly morning in the Southern Colorado grasslands, Bruce Schumacher led a group of AmeriCorps volunteers across the narrow, shallow Purgatoire River to [...]

Jun 07, 2017 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - June 07, 2017) - Hudbay Minerals Inc. ('Hudbay' or the 'company') (TSX: HBM) (NYSE: HBM) announced today that the U.S. [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'Unfortunately, every logging sale in Montana right now is under litigation. Every one of them.' _ Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, interview with Montana Public Radio, [...]

When I was 17, I spent part of the summer perched atop the Sierra Nevada range of California, forcing a hand drill into bristlecone pines. It was the first of [...]

Byline: Darryl Fears This winter is a real killer. The deep freeze, with arctic blasts from the polar vortex, has put invasive insects on ice in dozens of states. That [...]

Byline: VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jan 09, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Otis Gold Corp. ('Otis' or the 'Company') (TSX VENTURE: OOO)(OTC PINK: OGLDF) is pleased to announce the receipt of [...]

Byline: JODIE TILLMAN; RICH SHOPES; Times Staff Writers TAMPA -- Citing equipment problems and bad weather, crews called off search efforts Monday for the body of a Tampa man who [...]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Klee Benally, a member of the Navajo tribe, has gone to the mountains just north of here to pray, and he has gone to get arrested. He [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 24--A federal judge should throw out the 2007 management plan for the Allegheny National Forest because it violates environmental law and the U.S. Forest Service has [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson The wildfires that have consumed 1.6 million acres of Texas plains and pines, threatened its capital, and destroyed 240 homes is stretching, but not yet stressing, the [...]

Thousands of caves and abandoned mines on federal land in five states will be off limits to explorers for the next year to prevent humans from spreading a disease that [...]