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Thousands of employees with the U.S. Forest Service were fired over the weekend, including some in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

Around a hundred community members showed up to the U.S. Forest Service office in Medford on Wednesday night for a public meeting about proposed amendments to the Northwest Forest Plan.

The Biden administration is dropping its plan to conserve old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.

On Wednesday, tribal leaders and state representatives urged President Biden to designate three new national monuments in California. One of those plans is located in the state鈥檚 northeast.

The Biden administration has published its proposed plan for preserving old-growth trees in national forests across the country, opening another opportunity for public input on conserving ancient trees.

A criminal charge has been dismissed against a U.S. Forest Service employee arrested in 2022 by a rural Oregon sheriff after a prescribed burn on federal land unexpectedly spread to private property and burned roughly 20 acres.

Machine learning algorithms are helping researchers detect the calls of marbled murrelets among millions of hours of audio recordings collected from Oregon and Washington forests.

Attorneys for a federal wildland firefighter whose controversial arrest in eastern Oregon by a rural sheriff drew national headlines have successfully delayed his trial while they try to move the case to federal court.

Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they鈥檙e not worth very much.

"That smoke impacting a part of the nation that doesn鈥檛 normally see smoke certainly draws attention to some of the issues that we鈥檝e been talking about for a long time,鈥� said the U.S. Forest Service's Alex Robertson.