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Illustration of Woodsy Owl holding up solar glasses and looking at the moon passing in front of the sun.

Woodsy Owl’s Solar Eclipse Tips

For a fun, safe, and environmentally friendly viewing experience on public lands
Hoosier National Forest, Shawnee National Forest, Mark Twain National Forest, Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Ouachita National Forest, Caddo National Grassland, Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, White Mountain National Forest, Allegheny National Forest
Are you excited, too? A total solar eclipse will cross the United States on April 8, 2024, in a path from Texas through Maine and passing through five national forests. This will be my third total
A path of snow and destroyed drees descends down a wintery, forested hillside

Forecasting avalanches

Forest Service avalanche specialists help keep us informed and safe
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
You know about weather forecasters. What about avalanche forecasters? Fresh snow brings an increased amount of interest from backcountry winter sports enthusiasts who seek the adventure of untracked
A bearded man in a wildland firefighter uniform takes a selfie in front a wooded area covered in smoke.

A family fire legacy

Work, life and the evolution of firefighter culture
Six Rivers National Forest, Cibola National Forest
A childhood dream ignited. Matthew Rau was five years old when his family moved into government housing at a U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service ranger station. Some of his earliest
This landscape shows some of the extent of the damage to the Black Hollow site. Restoration crews are working to transplant seedlings to suitable areas within the fire scar to reduce nutrient runoff to the watershed below.

Sprucing up high-elevation forests

Working together to improve post-fire watershed health
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grassland
After the intense wildfires of 2020, Forest Service managers and scientists teamed up with conservation groups, water utilities, and universities. Their mission: To fix the damage to watersheds in the
A view of a treated area from the dude fire shows spacing of live new growth among a serval dead standing trees.

Dude Fire restoration project

A beacon of hope for forest resilience
Tonto National Forest
“Living with fire” -- understanding its role in ecology, management and communities – is an expression that became all too real for Arizonans following the devastating Dude Fire that occurred 33 years
African American woman in tan Forest Service uniform rests hands on engineering drawings.

Find your path: One engineer's story

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
Consider looking at the forest from another perspective — you arrived there by road, launched your boat by ramp, crossed a canyon by bridge, and maybe used a wildland restroom. These amenities
Group in yellow safety vests walk on left side of rowadway. Leader carries staff with feathers.

100-mile trek

California's Trail of Tears Commemorated in Nome Cult Walk
Mendocino National Forest
In Fall of 1863, 461 Native Americans from the Yuki, Wailacki, Concow, Little Lake Pomo, Nomlacki, Pit River, Maidu and Nissinan tribes were forcibly marched from their homelands. The march was part
A man stands smiling in front of hundreds of tree seedling in rows of small pots.

Rediscovering the value of trees

Mozambique village replants post slash-and-burn
Smoking fields and bare soil betray a common practice in this rural Mozambique district: slash and burn agriculture. The rural population here barely subsists on low-yield rice, cassava, and
A group of people use shovels to dig within a stream.

Being beavers

Within the forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, meadows are in need of help. Fortunately, some eager beaver hands are up to the task.
Sequoia National Forest, Sierra National Forest
Listen to the Story It appears that your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. Please use the following download directly link instead. Transcript | Download directly (66 MB) In a meadow, the squish of
Forest Service contractors move a bridge onto pillars through a canyon using a crane.

Flying bridge

Expediting the recreation repair effort
Mendocino National Forest
Dry thunderstorms rolled across California’s Central Valley into the Sierra Nevada range on August 17, 2020. Lightning-caused fires, fueled by hot, windy conditions, would eventually burn more than