Since last week, the Forest Service has fired at ... s staffing cuts will affect fire season — particularly in the vast wildlands that make up Oregon and the West. In interviews with OPB ...

This article was first published by High Country News. Successfully fighting a wildfire requires more than people digging ...

Tina Kotek has paused any further agency action on the state’s new Wildfire Hazard Map until ... 10% of the U.S. Forest Service’s workforce and about 4% of the workforce at the U.S. Department of the ...

As March snow melts off the trees, public safety workers across the Greater Yellowstone are making plans to burn some of them ...

When he wasn't researching the effects of vegetation on fire behavior ... got the USFS to cover his transportation by temporarily rescinding his termination until it got him back to Oregon.

Oregon, announced Monday that his guest to President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening will ...

A contained wildfire is one that still burns but is no longer spreading, while a controlled fire has been extinguished. The forest service was continuously updating an interactive map to chart the ...

For the second time in two years, Oregon lawmakers want to kill a map ... Please help us as we repeal the fire maps,” said Sen. Noah Robinson, R-Cave Junction. Robinson introduced a bill ...

The Trump administration has fired thousands of U.S. National Parks and Forest Service workers as part ... including people in Oregon and Washington. "It just came as a total shock," said Liz ...

The state says it is concerned with fire danger. Their solution is a fire map so that the citizens can be in charge of fire danger. This shifts the responsibility to the homeowner when the fire ...

Oregon lawmakers from both parties are scrambling to respond to a sagebrush rebellion against a state-issued wildfire hazard map. On Feb. 17, Republican lawmakers convened en masse in Salem to savage ...

Despite being miles away from his Oregon home ... the next time a fire pops up.” Duncan said Flaherty’s experience was incredibly common across the Forest Service. Around 75% of the USFS ...