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Intermountain Region Stories
Welcome to the Intermountain Region news story and video page. Find out what is happening throughout the Intermountain Region which covers 12 forests and 30 million acres in southern Idaho, western Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and a sliver of California. These stories cover a wide range of topics including project work, successes, partnerships, history and culture, employees, and recreation opportunities.
Current Stories
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Boise
Saving Seeds
Traveling tree climbers harvest ponderosa pine cones as wildfire grows near. The crew worked like squirrels, picking, sorting, and measuring pine cones by the bushel to send to the Lucky Peak Nursery in Boise.
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Intermountain Region
Forging a Path Through Trust
Amidst the shifting light of an autumn morning, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service trucks rolled into the South Fork Shoshone Tribal Headquarters. This was an opportunity for Forest Service employees in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest to meet with the Tribe in the first ever South Fork Band Cultural Workshop.
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Intermountain Region
Wood Innovations Grants & Forest Products Industry Keep America Warm
In 2024, the Intermountain Region invested more than $3.8 million in wood innovation program grants to seven organizations in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada. These grants helped purchase new and advanced equipment for timber processing and support product development and testing for modern construction materials.
Past Stories
2024 Stories
Wasatch Wildfire Crisis Landscape project thins Mill Creek Canyon - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
Making the Cut - Intermountain Region
The Flow of Nature - Ashley
The Sho-Pai Wood Bank Crew is Just Getting Warmed Up - Boise
Partners protect Ponderosa pine and Aspen on WCS landscape - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
American Falls high school student is a moon tree custodian - Caribou-Targhee
National Forest trains with cooperators to combat wildfires - Caribou-Targhee
A Matter of Pinyon - Dixie
Partners Keep the Water Flowing - Intermountain
Cooperating Agencies Fight Fungus that Kills Bats - Caribou-Targhee
Forest Products Week: Wood Innovation grants support timber industry, healthy forests - Intermountain Region
Planting Seeds of Prevention - Dixie
Intermountain Region Continues Fight Against Invasive Species - Intermountain Region
The Downstream Effects of Wildfire - Dixie
It Takes All of Us - Addressing a National Crisis at a Local Level - Humboldt-Toiyabe
Weber Basin Job Corps Trails Center of Excellence Pilot Program - Intermountain Region
Largescale Wildfire Fuels Reduction Effort to Begin in Utah’s Uinta Mountains - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
Elko WCS Landscape Tribal Tour - Humboldt-Toiyabe
Intermountain Region Celebrates Third Year of Great American Outdoors Act - Intermountain Region
On the Dixie, Fighting a Wildfire Before It Burns - Dixie
It’s the Good Neighbor That’s Getting It Done - Boise
Upper Provo Watershed Project on Wasatch WCS Landscape - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
National Wildfire Crisis Strategy: Protecting at-risk species in Nevada - Humboldt-Toiyabe
And Just Like That, I Found Myself in Fire School - Part II - Intermountain Region
And Just Like That, I Found Myself in Fire School - Part I - Intermountain Region
East Mink Creek Corridor Project - Caribou-Targhee
Protecting Southern Utah Communities from the Growing Risk of Wildfire - Dixie
Wildfire Crisis Funds Accelerate Efforts Toward a Resilient Utah Landscape - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
Prescribed Burning Updates on the Boise and Payette National Forests
GAOA Funding Supports Long Overdue Improvements to Northern Utah Recreation Area - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
Federal Funding Ignites Nevada’s Fight Against Devastating Wildfires - Humboldt-Toiyabe
Dispersed Camping in the Intermountain Region - Intermountain Region
Wind River Reservation Students Attend Camp on the BTNF - Bridger-Teton
Southwest Idaho Receives Federal Funding to Tackle the Wildfire Crisis Strategy - Intermountain Region
Tree Climbing Task Force Races to Collect Spruce and Fir Cones - Manti-La Sal
Wood Innovations in Utah Commercial Construction - Intermountain Region
Region Recreation Employees Tackle Challenges During Winter Season - Intermountain Region
USDA Forest Service Provides Avalanche Information for the Public’s Safety - Sawtooth
Fishlake National Forest receives Paiute Trail Hall of Fame award - Fishlake
Addressing the Wildland Fire Problem on the Fishlake National Forest - Fishlake
Bridgeport Ranger District Opens Winter Trail System Pilot Program - Humboldt-Toiyabe
Caribou-Targhee NF and partners renew rangelands with targeted grazing - Caribou-Targhee
Future Plans for Ashley Karst National Recreation and Geological Area - Ashley
Increased Emphasis on Recreation on the Boise National Forest in Idaho - Boise
Intermountain Region defines future of recreation with 5-year plan - Intermountain
Parleys and Lambs Canyon Shared Stewardship Project - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
Partnering for fire resistant landscapes and communities - Bridger-Teton
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache Hydrologist Receives 'Wagon Wheel Gap' Award - Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
USDA Forest Service delivers Wood for Life to local tribes - Sawtooth
Appaloosa Pack Horse, Ajax, Retires from Frank Church Wilderness - Payette
Arc Dome Wilderness Reclamation Team Reclaims Natural Resources - Humboldt-Toiyabe
Aspen Tree Carvings tell the History of Basque Sheepherder’s Settlement - Intermountain
Boulder Basin Interpretive Sign Project on Sawtooth National Recreation Area - Sawtooth N.F.
Bridger-Teton National Forest Adds New Fire Engine to Fleet - Bridger-Teton
Dixie NF host Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for new office - Dixie
Efforts to Change Offensive and Derogatory Place Names - Intermountain
Environmental DNA Testing and Sampling across the Intermountain Region to Determine the Presence of Aquatic Species - Boise & Payette
Fishlake National Forest Improvements - Fishlake
Fishlake National Forest Models Shared Stewardship - Fishlake
Forest Service Employees Inspire Young Women on Girls in Aviation Day
Heli-Rappellers Receive Regional Forester's Award - Salmon-Challis N.F. & Payette
Honoring Lives in the Chinese Cemetery - Payette
Humboldt-Toiyabe Program Manager Finds Balance - Humbolt-Toiyabe
Investing in Our Community Trees
Law Enforcement Finds Missing Child, Valley County Idaho - Boise
Manti-LaSal Minerals Staff Awarded Environmental Excellence Award - Manti-LaSal
Native Pollinators: The USFS Intermountain Region study on Bumble bees - Salmon-Challis
Palisades Water Project Brings East Idaho Together
Paris Ice Cave Graffiti Clean-up Day - Caribou-Targhee
Partnering for fire resistant landscapes and communities - Bridger-Teton
Region Provides Support for COVID-19 Pandemic - Intermountain
Shared Stewardship - Intermountain
The Great Basin Station Request for Reinvestment and Revival - Manti-La Sal
The North Country Calls Steve Beverlin Retires After 32 Years of Federal Service
Turkey Farm Road Fire Transforms Impact into Opportunity
Wildland Fire Investigations on the Bridger-Teton National - Bridger-Teton
Recent Video Features
More videos available in our Video Library.
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Go, No-go Checklist
May 12, 2023 – Fire crews work through a checklist to determine whether the weather conditions fit in the windows they set for being able to safely start work on a prescribed fire.
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Managing Smoke
May 12, 2023 – Fire crews consider air quality concerns when they plan prescribed burns, learn what factors in to that decision.
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Prescribed Fire and Fuels
May 12, 2023 – Fire management specialists describe prescribed fire’s role in helping maintain the landscape.
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Arctic Point Restoration
March 30, 2023 – USDA Forest Service archeological teams and volunteers on the Payette National Forest pack materials into the wilderness to restore a historic fire lookout tower and the residential buildings that surround it. For photos go to our Flickr account.
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Prescribed Fire Benefits Wildlife
Feb. 9, 2023 – >Prescribed fire is a critical component of active forest management. Partners of the Payette National Forest discuss how prescribed fire benefits wildlife in Idaho.
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Success with Prescribed Fire
Feb. 9, 2023 – Phil Roth and colleagues on the Payette National Forest explain how prescribed burning near Cambridge, ID helped crews successfully manage the Woodhead Fire in 2020.