University of California Cooperative Extension's statewide forestry network provides research-based solutions to natural ...

In California, summer could be on the chopping block. Almost 4,000 campsites across many of California’s 18 national forests could close for part or all of the summer season, according to an internal ...

Roughly 500 years ago in California's High Sierra, pine cones dropped to the ground and a cycle began. The Aztec Empire was falling. The printing press was new. The seedlings grew. Half a millennia ...

Public lands enjoyed by millions around the country might look and feel different next year. The U.S. Forest Service recently announced plans to cut all hiring of non-firefighting seasonal workers in ...

This week, the U.S. Forest Service directed its employees in California to stop prescribed burning “for the foreseeable future,” a directive that officials said is meant to preserve staff and ...

The Trump administration is calling in the chain saws at scores of national forests, including the 18 in California, hoping to ramp up timber production in places that millions of Americans visit each ...

ALTURAS, Calif. -- A U.S. Forest Service firefighter from South Dakota has been killed battling one of more than a dozen wildfires raging across California, Forest Service officials said Friday night.

Kirk Ringgold stands near a stack of logs, many of them burnt in the Creek Fire, while working toward opening a sawmill operation on his property in Auberry, on Thursday, May 13, 2021. President Trump ...