Forest Service Layoffs and Frozen Funds Increase the Risk From Wildfires
The Trump administration’s decision to fire 3,400 workers and pause funds used for wildfire prevention comes as wildfires are ...
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U.S. Forest Service layoffs impacting trails in Arizona
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Trump administration has continued cutting federal jobs, ...
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UMaine’s School of Forest Resources reflections on termination of Forest Service employees
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is terminating approximately 3,400 employees, affecting forest management operations. While firefighters, law enforcement officers, meteorologists and ...
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Trump’s Cuts Could Make Parks and Forests More Dangerous, Employees Say
But, since Thursday, at least 3,000 employees have been laid off across the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service, part of a wave of Trump administration cuts to the federal ...
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‘Real and immediate consequences for Colorado’s economy’: Legislators react to reports of US Forest Service mass layoff
DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado’s senators and U.S. representatives issued a joint statement Friday, urging the U.S. Department ...
Nearly 100 Coloradans laid off from forest service, what this could mean for the state’s wildfire response
“It means that it’s an all hands on deck moment for the forest service, for wildland firefighters, who sacrificed so much to bravely protect communities. For farmland managers and for others in terms ...
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Montanans, workers warn mass Forest Service layoffs will impact public lands, recreation
Former employees say the quality of Montana's recreation, tourism and the outdoors industries will suffer after more than 300 ...
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U.S. Forest Service to conduct prescribed burn in Wayne County Friday
PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Wayne County residents may notice smokey skies on Friday due to a prescribed burn by the U.S.