Forest worker layoffs and an “extraordinary problem” regarding the new UNC Pardee Healthcare facility project were concerns expressed during Monday’s Board of Commissioners’ meeting.

“Park Service focuses mostly on preservation and education and recreation, but the Forest Service is a little bit more holistic and they’re managed for conservation,” she said. “We do ...

Oregon, announced Monday that his guest to President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening will ...

thinning out the forest, cleaning out the brush," said Neal Desai with National Parks Conservation Association. "Things that help reduce catastrophic fires, now we’re down on staffing for that.” ...

a 23-year-old GIS specialist at the U.S. Forest Service’s Asheville headquarters, received a notice of termination from the agency on Feb. 14. Like many other federal employees who received ...

It’s disorienting. And it just makes me feel like what I was doing didn’t matter,” says fired worker Abbey Hays.

to restoring spruce-fir forest and wetlands, to prescribed fire.” In recent months his work has been focused on Helene recovery. Jenifer Bunty, the fired worker who made the Facebook post ...

Are you a federal worker in Kansas ... work with an AmeriCorps conservation program in Utah. After that, she joined her partner in Idaho, where he was employed by the forest service to maintain ...

Mike Knoerr, a U.S. Forest Service worked in Western North ... who lives in Asheville and has spent the last 20 years working in wildlife conservation, said in a social media post on Friday ...