Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

The U.S. Forest Service is taking the unusual step of allowing its temporary staff to work for more than half the year, waiving a statutory cap as it enters peak wildfire season after shedding ...

At Boxelder Job Corps outside of Nemo, a select group of students are working with the Forest Service-run program to seize opportunities in the trades and taking on ...

In announcing one of the largest reorganizations in the 120-year history of the U.S. Forest Service, the Trump administration declared that there would be “no interruption or change” to the agency’s ...

Kathryn Styer Martínez / OPB Firefighters Max Li and Owen Fortey worked in silence as they checked each other’s harnesses and flight gear, using hand taps and the thumbs up gesture to move through a ...