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 ...

In addition to laying off thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees ... These are people in your communities,” says Land Tawney, co-chair of the newly-formed conservation group American Hunters and ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Since last week, the Forest Service ... director with the conservation advocacy group Center for Western Priorities, said. This is all happening on top of a seasonal worker hiring freeze that ...