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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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

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 ...

Caroline Becker, 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 ...