by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2017 | News, News/PR
In 1995, the U.S. Forest Service spent 16 percent of its total budget on fighting fires. Today, it’s 52 percent and growing. What’s changed? “Everything,” said Matthew Thompson, a research forester who works at the agency’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort...
by Web Editor | Oct 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
Two western senators urged members of the conference committee negotiating a comprehensive energy package to move quickly because their states have been devastated by this year’s wildfire season. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Steve Daines, D-Mont., sent...
by Web Editor | Sep 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
This year’s horrific wildfire season in the West is spurring Congress to move toward providing $700 million in emergency disaster aid to the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies facing rapidly rising firefighting costs. The emergency aid – contained in...
by Web Editor | Aug 10, 2015 | News, News/PR
For the first time in its 110-year history, the Forest Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is spending more than 50 percent of its budget to suppress the nation’s wildfires. A new report released today by the Forest Service estimates that within...
by Web Editor | Mar 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service recognizes that it must significantly increase forest restoration work to alleviate threats from wildfire and to improve forest and watershed health, Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said. Tidwell spoke at the regional conference of district...