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‘Crazy’: Forest Service cuts ignite fear, fury over wildfire risks
The Trump administration has slashed more than 10 percent of the agency’s workforce, with more layoffs expected.
Forest Service to hire up to 1,100 permanent firefighters nationwide
The Rocky Mountain Region of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service is looking to hire 1,100 ...
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Oregon groups raise concerns over Trump administration timber plans
The Trump administration is taking steps to boost logging in national forests across the United States, raising some concerns ...
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Forest protection rollbacks will affect White Mountain National Forest
An April 4 memorandum released by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins may reduce environmental protection measures and ...
Tribes, Arizona work well in fighting fires. California may offer a model for what's next
In the wake of more than two decades of deadly wildland fires, tribes in the West hope new partnerships will help reduce the ...
Trump wants more logging in national forests. Here’s what that could mean for WA
The Evergreen State is home to five national forests. Trump wants to increase logging there by 25% in five years.
What Trump's executive order on timber could mean for Tennessee forests
A new emergency order from the U.S. Department of Agriculture allocated 59% of national forests across the country for timber ...
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What will Trump’s plan to boost logging on national forests mean for our area? The answer is still unclear
On March 1, the Trump Administration announced its plan to expand timber production, beginning with an executive order giving ...
Introduced trees are becoming more common in the eastern United States, while native diversity declines
In a new study, researchers used more than 5 million measurements from individual trees across much of eastern North America and showed the rate at which introduced species are spreading has increased ...