Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water tenders, fire engines, helicopters, airtankers, and heavy ...

In announcing one of the largest reorganizations in the 120-year history of the U.S. Forest Service, the Trump administration declared that there would be “no interruption or change” to the agency’s ...

After a slew of firings and deferred resignations last winter, the loss of federal workers left holes throughout the Northwest. “When we get to peak fire season, it’s kind of an all-hands-on-deck call ...

This story was originally posted by Stateline, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Federal wildland firefighter jobs in California are sitting open even as the West heads into what’s likely to ...

Kathryn Styer Martínez / OPB Firefighters Max Li and Owen Fortey worked in silence as they checked each other’s harnesses and flight gear, using hand taps and the thumbs up gesture to move through a ...

At Boxelder Job Corps outside of Nemo, a select group of students are working with the Forest Service-run program to seize opportunities in the trades and taking on ...