Potential funding cuts could have an impact on delaying critical repairs and infrastructure projects at state parks across ...

A parkwide fire ban has been issued for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park due to dry conditions and low relative ...

MORE: When hikers need assistance on days with extreme heat, National Parks rangers are also put at risk Jaelle Downs, who was fired recently from the Forest Service as a wilderness ranger at the ...

Compared with national parks and forests, the F.W.S. is a much smaller operation, often relying on local volunteers and community members to keep facilities running. Without full-time staff ...

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

Courtesy of Arianna Knight National parks and forests lost essential personnel with many crews cut down to half, leaving critical tasks unmanageable. Arianna Knight and Jaelle Downs were among ...

President Donald Trump's order to fire thousands of federal workers left gaps int he workforces of national parks and forests in Arizona. Over 38 percent of Arizona is federal public lands managed ...

America’s national ... National Parks Conservation Association. More than 1,000 NPS employees were terminated by the Trump administration, Brengel said, while more than 2,000 U.S. Forest Service ...

DULUTH — The region’s national parks and forests were already stretched thin. Tom Hall, forest supervisor for Superior National Forest, told the Cook County Board of Commissioners in October ...

These are just a few of the several thousand national parks and forests ... Willamette National Forest in Oregon cleaning fire pits and toilets, picking up litter, posting maps and informational ...