Tag: Forest Service

In January 2021, the Biden Administration committed to protecting 30% of U.S. lands and oceans by 2030, based on a wider goal the United Nations set to protect about a...

The U.S. Forest Service should do more to protect the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius luteus) in New Mexico and Arizona, argues a new lawsuit filed earlier...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to repeal or replace the previous administration’s rule that exempts the Tongass National Forest in Alaska from roadless-area restrictions on logging and other development....

Domestic sheep grazing is being limited around the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sheep Experiment Station in the Centennial Mountains along the Idaho-Montana border, after a federal court ruling issued earlier...

The American chestnut was once a common and abundant tree species that occupied 200 million acres in the eastern hardwood forests of North America and provided wildlife with food and...

The U.S. Forest Service is endangering bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, in eastern Washington state by allowing domestic sheep to graze near the wild herds, according...

More than 9 million acres of roadless area in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest could become open to potential logging. The U.S. Forest Service proposed exempting Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from...

On Nov. 21 the U.S. Forest Service published a notice soliciting comments on its plan to revisit and possibly amend land management plans in regards to the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus...

Dozens of students attended career sessions with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Forest Service Wednesday at TWS’ 24th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Professionals from these federal agencies...

Tony Tooke, regional forester for the Southern Region of the Forest Service, will serve as the new Forest Service chief, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced on Monday. Tooke replaces Tom...