by Web Editor | Jan 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Six former chiefs of the Forest Service have written leaders of the U.S. House and Senate expressing the urgent need to establish a new method of funding wildland firefighting. The Forest Service and Department of Interior, they said, are alone among federal agencies...
by Web Editor | Feb 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
Starting in 1988 and occurring at 12-year intervals since then, the Ashland Ranger District in Eastern Montana has suffered through nasty wildland fire seasons. From 1988 to 2012 almost 290,000 acres burned on the Ashland Ranger District — 66 percent of forest lands...
by Web Editor | Feb 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
Legislation that would move ownership and management of the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management lands in New Mexico has been sent to the House Agriculture and Water Resource Committee for study. House Bill 292 – The New Mexico Transfer of...