/tags/u-s-forest-service-usfs U.S. Forest Service (USFS) en-US Copyright Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:06:02 GMT /environment-energy-and-transportation/2024-08-31/tribal-leaders-and-politicians-call-for-national-monument-in-medicine-lake-highlands 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’s northeast. Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:06:02 GMT /environment-energy-and-transportation/2024-08-31/tribal-leaders-and-politicians-call-for-national-monument-in-medicine-lake-highlands Justin Higginbottom /environment-energy-and-transportation/2024-06-22/us-forest-service-proposes-protections-for-old-growth-trees-without-an-outright-logging-ban 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. Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:50:54 GMT /environment-energy-and-transportation/2024-06-22/us-forest-service-proposes-protections-for-old-growth-trees-without-an-outright-logging-ban April Ehrlich /law-and-justice/2024-06-07/criminal-charge-dismissed-against-federal-burn-manager-in-rural-oregon 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. Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:45:16 GMT /law-and-justice/2024-06-07/criminal-charge-dismissed-against-federal-burn-manager-in-rural-oregon Conrad Wilson /environment-energy-and-transportation/2024-05-06/oregon-researchers-use-ai-to-study-threatened-coastal-seabirds 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. Mon, 06 May 2024 13:11:25 GMT /environment-energy-and-transportation/2024-05-06/oregon-researchers-use-ai-to-study-threatened-coastal-seabirds April Ehrlich /2024-04-01/a-conservative-oregon-county-attempts-criminal-prosecution-of-a-federal-employee 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. Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:55:00 GMT /2024-04-01/a-conservative-oregon-county-attempts-criminal-prosecution-of-a-federal-employee Kirk Siegler /wildfire/2024-03-23/it-feels-impossible-to-stay-the-u-s-needs-wildland-firefighters-more-than-ever-but-the-federal-government-is-losing-them Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much. Sat, 23 Mar 2024 13:02:13 GMT /wildfire/2024-03-23/it-feels-impossible-to-stay-the-u-s-needs-wildland-firefighters-more-than-ever-but-the-federal-government-is-losing-them Abe Streep /wildfire/2023-06-18/heavy-smoke-in-eastern-cities-puts-a-spotlight-on-the-northwests-wildfire-challenges "That smoke impacting a part of the nation that doesn’t normally see smoke certainly draws attention to some of the issues that we’ve been talking about for a long time,” said the U.S. Forest Service's Alex Robertson. Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:05:23 GMT /wildfire/2023-06-18/heavy-smoke-in-eastern-cities-puts-a-spotlight-on-the-northwests-wildfire-challenges Elizabeth Castillo