The U.S. Forest Service began closing a sprawling homeless encampment in an Oregon national forest on Thursday, closing the area for a fire-prevention project and forcing those living there to ...

Staffing uncertainties and delayed reimbursements threaten to gut the U.S. Forest Service’s capacity to care for the 1.8 million-acre Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. The Siskiyou Mountain Club ...

If you haven’t already enjoyed a summer campfire on the slopes of Oregon’s tallest mountain, you’re out of luck. The seasonal ...

Federal foresters have pushed back public meetings that will outline the future of national forests east of the Cascades. The U.S. Forest Service had planned to hold a series of meetings about the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. On July 6, 2021, a wildfire started by lightning burned over 400,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Controlled burns are used to clear out undergrowth that can fuel catastrophic blazes under dry, windy conditions. Federal ...

As reported by the U.S. Forest Service, its reach was confirmed through DNA testing across multiple locations in the forest, all genetically identical, proving it was a single, living entity. Despite ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years were being evicted Thursday by the U.S. Forest Service, as it closed the area for a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An unknown person or group is placing homemade spike strips and other booby-trap like devices along U.S. Forest Service Roads in southwestern Oregon, according to authorities.

The Trump administration’s plan to relocate the U.S. Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City and dismantle its regional office structure is raising concerns in Oregon, where federal forests play ...