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'Morale is at an all-time low:' Concerns about direction of U.S. Forest Service

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The U.S. Forest Service is responsible for reducing the threat of wildfires and for fighting them across large parts of the nation.

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'Morale is at an all-time low:' Concerns about direction of U.S. Forest Service

The agency is facing staffing cuts that advocates warn could have a major impact on the nation’s forests and environment.

7 days ago·United States

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Columbia Insight

New world disorder: Get ready for dirty toilets, closed facilities and fewer firefighters - Columbia Insight

Federal layoffs have created chaos for Northwest public lands, and a cascade of damaging environmental consequences appears imminent That’s rich: The federal government has decided it’s time for Americans to make do with less. Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via AP By Nick Engelfried. April 3, 2025. Every summer for decades, seasonal Forest Service employees have headed into some of the Pacific Northwest’s most rugged terrain to survey for threatened s…

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Dubois County Herald

New Office Schedule for Forest Service Offices

BEDFORD – Hoosier National Forest offices in Bedford and Tell City will have new operating hours and days starting the week of March 30, 2025.

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The Mountain Messenger

Plumas County Hears Answers to Concerns About Forest Service Community Protection Project

Plumas County addresses concerns over Forest Service’s wildfire prevention project in public meeting.

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Real Vail

Departing forest chief Fitzwilliams says crowding impacts ‘a really hard thing’

White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams, second to the right behind former President Joe Biden, applauds the Camp Hale National Monument signing in 2022. After 34 years in the U.S. Forest Service – nearly half of them managing the nation’s busiest national forest in Colorado – White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams was busy packing up his office on his final Friday of work when a reporter called to ask him ab…

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