Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and ...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to shrink the federal government, launched as the deadly Palisades and Eaton ...

A man is facing charges in the murder of a Harvey woman who disappeared while on a walk at a forest preserve in 2020 ... can he was drinking from while at work. Police allege his DNA was found ...

Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...

Tourism, Alaska’s other major revenue stream, is also expected to be harmed by cuts to National Park and National Forest employees, according to Hart. Labor reductions in the parks and forests mean ...

“Additionally, a lot of effort and time goes into preparing sites we intend to burn.” Fires work through the grass during a controlled burn by the Forest Preserve District Will County. (Photo provided ...

A two-alarm fire occurred in a Cook County forest preserve, starting after 6 p.m. The fire is 100% contained, though the amount of acreage burned is still unclear. The fire is under investigation, ...

Provided Photo Two Lake County Forest Preserves police officers helped locate a man who went missing for 13 hours in frigid temperatures in a forest preserve in Wadsworth. Lake County Forest Preserve ...

The next morning, Ehrhardt organized and led a second search with a team of forest preserve officers. About 10 a.m. after roughly two hours of searching, Viramontes found the man standing in a ...

But even before Trump took office, the Forest Service was already working under an employment freeze on seasonal and temporary workers, with the exception of seasonal firefighters. According to ...

Kolkata: A tiger that entered Nagenabad village in the South 24 Parganas division of the Sundarbans on Sunday evening has attacked and wounded a forest worker on Monday morning when a team was ...