Only having roughly a month left of her probationary period with the North Carolina Forest Service, now-former public affairs specialist Dana Hodde said she and 20 other probationary employees in the ...

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.

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 ...

Public safety Forest Service employees, including firefighting jobs, were exempt from the firings, according to Politico. Mike Knoerr, who lives in Asheville and has spent the last 20 years working in ...

co-chair of the newly-formed conservation group American Hunters and Anglers. “And this has major implications for management on the ground. The folks they are cutting, that they cut, are people that ...

Mike Knoerr, a U.S. Forest Service worked in Western North Carolina, said he was among the thousands of other employees laid off from the agency across the country.

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.” ...

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 ...

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

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 ...