The Latest Breaking News from US Forest Service

Major wildfires in California and Montana have grown substantially as firefighters protected remote communities amid hot, windy weather across the U.S. West that has created the potential for even more spread

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as the McKinney fire intensified. In Montana, the Elmo fire grew to more than 11 square miles. Other states are also dealing with wildfires.

It's now abundantly clear why the Trump administration halted, then kept secret, an environmental assessment of copper mining's risks to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) watershed.

MT. BAKER-SNOQUALMIE NATIONAL FOREST, Wash. — Backdropped Monday morning by one of Washington's most popular trails, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh unveiled $503 million in new funding for outdoor recreation infrastructure as part of the Great American Outdoors Act.

For years California, Florida, Oregon, Washington, and other states have relied on incarcerated men and women to fight wildfires

As more than 3,000 firefighters in northern New Mexico continue to battle the nation’s largest active wildfire, federal forest officials are worrying about future flash floods, landslides and destructive ash from the burn scar

Extreme heat and dry weather make controlled burns difficult to execute

Two fires that merged to create the largest wildfire in New Mexico history have both been traced to prescribed burns set by U.S. forest managers

The U.S. Forest Service has been facing much criticism for the prescribed fire in New Mexico that escaped its containment lines and joined with another blaze.