“We move every day — we’re backpacking,” said Jackson Fitzsimmons, a Sierra National Forest wilderness ranger who lost his ...

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 ...

Firing U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service workers en masse will undermine firefighting, recreation and more. The ...

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 ...

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 Service Agency, and more.

Under the new order, the fired workers can return to their jobs for 45 days during the Office of Special Counsel's investigation.

“This isn’t just about us right now, and me and my insular little job. But it’s about the land that ... in a letter Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Forest Service.

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