Fired U.S. Forest Service workers and other probationary employees of the Department of Agriculture who lost their jobs in a mass firing last month will return, at least temporarily, to the federal ...

The decision follows a directive from the federal Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which on March 5 ordered the USDA to temporarily reinstate thousands of workers who lost their jobs ...

Faced with unprecedented wildfire seasons and the monumental task of managing nearly 200 million acres of public land, the ...

Katherine "Katie" Steele could have been the person collecting fees from campers in Virginia's national forests this spring, ...

The approximately 360 Montana-based federal Forest Service workers laid off in a blanket federal workforce reduction ...

It was unclear whether the USDA or Forest Service would actually follow the order to reinstate the employees. Remaining ...

They empty trash bins at trailheads. Dig pit toilets at backcountry campsites. Cut down trees in campgrounds at risk of falling on unsuspecting campers. Carve up logs that have fallen across hiking ...

In an Asheville visit March 6, the US Secretary of Agriculture commented on Forest Service firings, Hendersonville's Farm ...

Colorado, like many other states in the West, relies on federal firefighting teams to battle large-scale fires across its federal public lands, which cover about a third of the state.

“My main focus for going forward is fighting to get my job back and helping the thousands of others who were affected by ...

As workers continue to struggle with the fallout of their abrupt firings, their union is jumping in to protect them.

He's worried for his former colleagues now out of a job, and what this means ... The U.S. Department of Agriculture which also oversees the U.S. Forest Service, announced 2,000 probationary ...