May 30, 2018 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service announced early signs indicating national forest lands will face a second consecutive year of a severe southern pine beetle outbreak threatening to damage tens of thousands of acres of pine forests in Mississippi. Forest Service scientists...
Mar 26, 2018 | News, News/PR
A coalition of Tennessee conservation groups has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a logging project in Polk County is endangering a sparkling trout stream. Tumbling Creek flows through hemlocks and beech trees on the...
Mar 14, 2018 | News, News/PR
President Donald Trump’s administration moved quickly last week to install a female wildland firefighter to lead the U.S. Forest Service after the agency’s former chief stepped down amid sexual misconduct allegations. The appointment of Vickie Christiansen as interim...
Feb 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
For the first time in its history, the national Wildland Firefighter Apprenticeship Program is providing training in the eastern United States, and it is doing so at the Auburn University Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center in Andalusia. The training course, also...
Jan 3, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recently highlighted some of the agency’s accomplishments during 2017 to improve the productivity, uses, and sustainability of national forests and grasslands. “Our accomplishments this year...