The administration is consolidating the federal response to wildfires across the West, shifting 3,900 firefighters to the Wildland Fire Service. The Trump administration’s new wildfire agency is ...

The Trump administration has taken the first steps in standing up its new, consolidated federal firefighting agency, despite Congress declining to fund it and voicing bipartisan reservations about the ...

Congress has balked at the Trump administration’s push to move firefighting responsibilities from the Forest Service to Interior, but the department is taking its own steps to consolidate wildfire ...

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a unification of programs previously part of six DOI agencies and offices.