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Byline: Emily Davies BALDWIN, Mich. - Ryleigh Cooper exhaled as she slid onto the couch after nine hours of work for the U.S. Forest Service, still covered in the blue [...]

Byline: Ruby Mellen The head of the U.S. Forest Service announced his retirement in a blunt, emotional email to staff Wednesday, after thousands of employees were let go from a [...]

Byline: MACKENZIE BODELL With more than a third of Colorado some 24 million acres preserved as public land, the news last week of mass firings in some of the agencies [...]

Byline: Zac Anderson, USA TODAY Victoria Porter spent two days last year fighting a small forest fire that sprang up from a hunter's campsite in the Montana wilderness. Porter, 28, [...]

Byline: Alaina Mencinger amencinger@sfnewmexican.com Thinner federal budgets could affect national forests in New Mexico as the U.S. Forest Service grapples with a truncated workforce. In January, an executive order from [...]

Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said. The hiring of thousands of federal [...]

MONTEREY, Calif. -- The following information was released by the office of California Rep. Jimmy Panetta: U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) announced today that an unjustly terminated Los Padres National [...]

AURORA -- The following information was released by the office of Colorado Rep. Jason Crow: Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06) joined Colorado's U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, along with [...]

CASCADE, IDAHO -- The following information was released by the office of Idaho Rep. Russ Fulcher: Today, U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher held a roundtable with officials from the U.S. Forest [...]

Byline: Michael Wright Nov. 22Avalanche forecasting isn't really an office job. Sure, Chris Bilbrey, the new director of the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center, is going to spend plenty of time [...]

Byline: Finn Smith Five reported wildfires occurred Oct. 30 within Wayne National Forest as a result of the severe drought in Southeast Ohio. The fires remained isolated on forest land [...]

Local public health authorities urged evacuees from the Borel Fire to exercise caution before returning home Tuesday as the blaze was held to 59,340 acres two weeks after it started. [...]

Byline: ABBEY SOUKUP The U.S. Forest Service has seen a high number of unattended campfires this summer, a dangerous trend witnessed in outdoor recreation and a leading cause of wildfires [...]

Byline: Sam Hitt The U.S. Forest Service should not be cutting down white pines to prevent wildfire. These uncommon conifers that grace our mid-elevation forests are threatened by an exotic [...]

TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. -- The following information was released by the office of California Rep. Young Kim: Today, U.S. Representatives Young Kim (CA-40) and Ken Calvert (CA-41) led a bipartisan [...]

MEDORA, N.D. -- The following information was released by North Dakota Senator John Hoeven: Senator Sponsored and Passed Legislation to Enable Land Sale for Library Site and Loan Artifacts from [...]

Byline: Hannah Parcells Editor's Note: This is an ongoing story. Updates will be provided as they become available. The... FC Moves, local artist prepare to brighten FoCo with asphalt mural [...]

Byline: Hannah ParcellsAllie Seibel Read The Collegian's coverage of the Alexander Mountain Fire for updates. Reach Hannah Parcells... Isaiah Stevens impresses at NBA Summer League, fuels momentum for 2-way contract [...]

Byline: DICK MASON LA GRANDE Union County Sheriff Cody Bowen knew the scene would be bad, but what he saw was worse than he anticipated. Bowen had just arrived at [...]

Byline: Abbey Soukup The Oak Ridge fire, 3 miles northwest of Beulah in Pueblo County, broke the 1,000 acres-burned milestone Wednesday as it continues to burn prompting road closures and [...]

Byline: Savannah Eller The smoke of what is set to become a thousand-acre forest fire wafted over Kari Martin's house as she stood in its driveway on Wednesday, just one [...]

Byline: Savannah Eller The smoke of what is set to become a thousand-acre forest fire wafted over Kari Martin's house as she stood in its driveway on Wednesday, just one [...]

More than 600 firefighters working in shifts are battling the Indios Fire, which as of Thursday morning had grown to 6,139 acres and was 25% contained. 'Cloud cover and high [...]

The Indios Fire, burning in steep, rugged terrain in the Chama River Canyon Wilderness north of Coyote, grew about 1,600 acres Sunday amid heavy winds, to 4,210 total acres. While [...]

BENTON, N.H. -- The following information was released by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department: On Sunday, June 2, 2024 at approximately 4:50 p.m., the New Hampshire Fish and [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden: The West has experienced growing wildfire risks over the past 20 years Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Ron [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by the office of New Mexico Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez: Today, Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez issued the following statement on the 2-year [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson Ricky Snodgrass, a U.S. Forest Service fire fighting 'burn boss,' was literally fighting fire with fire on a warm afternoon in Malheur National Forest when things got [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson Ricky Snodgrass, a U.S. Forest Service fire fighting ǣburn boss,ǥ was literally fighting fire with fire on a warm afternoon in Malheur National Forest when things got [...]

On a long-term assignment following wildland firefighters, Max Whittaker observed them struggling against walls of flames and grinding their morning coffee. It was almost 1 a.m., and I was struggling [...]

Byline: Scott Wyland swyland@sfnewmexican.com CUBA, N.M. James Casaus steps through ankle-deep snow and presses a torch against a pile of branches, logs and other forest debris, and within minutes it's [...]

Byline: kateduffy By Kate Duffy Cronkite News It was just before 8 a.m. on a clear fall day, when trucks carrying fire crews barreled down dirt roads into Kaibab National [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by the office of Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse: Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, Co-Chair and Founder of the Bipartisan Wildfire Caucus, joined U.S. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Colorado Senator Michael Bennet: U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) alongside U.S. Representatives Joe Neguse (D-Colo.), Celeste Maloy (R-Utah), [...]

Conservation groups urged the U.S. Forest Service today to disclose more information about a Canadian companys mining exploration plans in Montanas Bitterroot National Forest, set to begin this summer. The [...]

A planned burn of 650 acres near the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed and several communities near the city has been canceled for the fall, the U.S. Forest Service said Wednesday. [...]

BOISE, Idaho: Perpetua Resources Corp. has issued the following news release: Perpetua Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: PPTA) (TSX: PPTA) ('Perpetua Resources' or 'Perpetua' or the 'Company') announced today that the Company [...]

Washington: PERPETUA RESOURCES CORP., has filed FORM 8-K (Current Report) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan 02, 2024: UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 [...]

Andrew Cole appointed to Board of Directors bringing extensive projects and operational expertise 2023 Milestones Further Strengthen Project's Strategic Value to U.S. Critical Mineral Development BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 2, 2024 [...]