In Valley County, Idaho, the Forest Service is the area’s third largest employer. A union steward there reported nearly four ...

Tom Schultz, a former director of the Idaho Department of Lands and executive with the Idaho Forest Group, will be the next chief of the Forest Service. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins chose ...

A federal labor board ordered that all probationary employees who were fired be reinstated, but Idahoans still have not heard ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will reinstate thousands of workers laid off in February starting this Wednesday.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has appointed Tom Schultz, of Idaho, as the country’s top forestry official. Schultz will serve as the 21st chief of the U.S. Forest Service, an agency ...

Employees warn that recent firings could weaken protections for public lands. The U.S. Forest Service, already struggling ...

USFS in Idaho will not lose enough employees full time or seasonal to matter the real work for the USFS is done by contractors, bidding for the work, the USFS does not clean your toilets, or haul your ...

Three of the Forest Service’s nine regional foresters have retired this year, adding to the uncertainty surrounding workforce ...

The Idaho Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved funding to fight wildfires and bonuses for wildland ...

I am retired. I worked for the US Forest Service for 46 years, all of it in Boundary County, Idaho. I am not acting as a spokesperson for the Forest Service or any other agency.