The Latest Breaking News from the Forest Service

The Biden administration is moving to conserve groves of old-growth trees on federal land by revising management plans for national forests and grasslands across the U.S. The proposal Tuesday comes as climate change amplifies the threats that forests face from wildfires, insects and disease

The agency offered to partner with Tesla on off-road education and said "this really happened" to a Cybertruck at Stanislaus National Forest.

The U.S. Forest Service Thursday banned campfires in the Daniel Boone National Forest. The move came after nearly two weeks of wildfires in eastern and southeastern Kentucky.

Forest in California may be disappearing

Relatives of three people who died last year in a flash flood stemming from the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history are suing the U.S. Forest Service

As housing becomes unreachable, homeless people are flocking to America’s sprawling public lands, but federal agents seem unprepared to address a complex issue without resorting to violence, Josh Marcus reports

The bipartisan infrastructure law granted federal firefighters a big pay bump. Amid a looming government shutdown, that wage increase will expire, leaving first responders unsure about their income.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act.

A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates several laws

Humans have learned to fear wildfire. It can destroy communities, torch pristine forests and choke even faraway cities with toxic smoke.

At least 8,500 acres of Texas land have burned since Aug. 1. The governor’s disaster declaration allows included counties to access state resources to fight wildfires.