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With budget battles still to fight on Capitol Hill, the U.S. Forest Service will continue to hire for its highest priority positions, albeit cautiously. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore told the ...

Cyrus Issari worked in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico as a Forestry Technician until he was terminated on February 13th, 2025. Here, Issari works with the trails crew hiking with tools and ...

Ben Vizzachero boarded a whale-watching boat on Saturday with his girlfriend, setting aside rumors that his U.S. Forest Service job was at risk so he could enjoy Valentine’s Day weekend. Then he got a ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — When Allison Borges was hired on as a weeds specialist with the U.S. Forest Service in May 2024, she was thrilled. She moved to Bozeman from her home in Washington state, spending the ...

For a certain breed of outdoor enthusiast there are few job opportunities more appealing than to spend a summer working to preserve and protect one of the landscapes that they love. That precise ...

Josh Watson and his chain saw are back in action. On Monday, five weeks after Watson and thousands of U.S. Forest Service personnel were mass-fired by the federal Office of Personnel Management as ...

Fire support staff who clear brush and fallen trees among 2,000 jobs cut in U.S. Forest Service. USDA, which oversees the Forest Service, blames firings on Biden administration and says firefighting ...

Trash litters the ground of a vault toilet at the Kirkham Hot Springs day-use recreation site near Lowman in this 2021 file photo. With dozens of positions cut from national forests in Idaho, one ...

Wildlife biologist Ben Vizzachero conducts a waterbird count at Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge. He lost his job at the Los Padres National Forest as part of a wave of firings ordered by the Trump ...