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Smokey Bear poses with Forest Service employees atop a float celebrating the fire prevention icon's 80th birthday.

Sage, Zip Ties and Smokey Bear

Behind the Scenes at the Rose Parade
Angeles National Forest
You’re given hundreds of zip ties, thousands of seeds, bins piled with pinecones and branches, plus lots of glue and wiring. You have four days to decorate the Forest Service wagon for the 135th
A person in sitting in a flying aircraft looking out the right window while appearing to talk in the microphone of a headset.

Tree mortality from a bird’s-eye view

Audio documentary
Sequoia National Forest
When it comes to getting perspective on forest health, sky-high observations are a big help in California. With over 30 million acres of forested land throughout the state, there is a lot of ground to
A hand holds a frog with a yellow belly and black spots across its back.

Aquatic ambassadors

Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs can teach us about our planet
Tahoe National Forest
“Some think a frog face is one only a mother could love, but I think they’re cute. And in some ways, they’re both resilient and fragile,” said Pacific Southwest Research Station aquatic ecologist
Man wearing sunglasses studies insect galleries under tree bark with a hand lens.

Bark Beetles: The science of scents

Tahoe National Forest
Listen to the audio story. There is an ongoing conversation in the forest between insects and trees. But this conversation has no words and no sound. Instead, it uses the language of subtle aromatic
Person in hard hat with ax in one hand, using a drip torch to ignite a controlled burn along tree line.

Wildfire

A modern-day paradox
Six Rivers National Forest
Wildfire is both simple and complex. It is restorative and destructive. It burns areas completely and partially. Wildfires are natural and they are human caused. Contained and uncontained. All this
A blue pinyon jay perches in foreground of a forest demonstrating forest treatment.

A matter of a pinyon

Research scientists and land managers work together to study impacts of fuels treatments on southern Utah woodlands
Dixie National Forest
The new Shrub Sciences Laboratory in Cedar City, Utah hasn’t been built yet, but scientists aren’t letting that slow them down. The lab, a division of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, is
Two gloved hands hold an endangered toad.

Species in peril

50-year-old Endangered Species Act focuses on severely troubled species populations
Plumas National Forest, Tahoe National Forest, Lincoln National Forest, Stanislaus National Forest, Sierra National Forest, Sequoia National Forest
Meghan Snow and Cal Robinson, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office, contributed to this report. National forests and grasslands across the country are home to dozens of
Illustrated logo of Smokey Bear behind 80th BIRTHDAY text.

Coming up in 2024: Smokey Bear turns 80

A fire prevention legacy unmatched
80 years is a tremendous milestone—for anyone. To make it to 80 means you have overcome life’s greatest challenges and you truly become the elder, the sage, the one who knows a thing or two and should
Savanna elephants walk in a line across a dirt road. Telephone poles with power lines run along the road. Trees, shrubs, and dry grasses fill the landscape.

Living with elephants

Fostering coexistence in the Okavango Delta of Botswana
Ecoexist partners with Forest Service training specialists to help Botswana farmers and families share methods for living peacefully with endangered savanna elephants. Dangerous encounters Young
Two employees stand in front of tall industrial shelves stacked high with large white bags of seed.

Planting seeds of prevention

Custom seed mixes to restore habitat in fuel breaks on the Dixie National Forest
Dixie National Forest
In a large climate-controlled warehouse in central Utah, hundreds of thousands of pounds of seed in white feed bags are stacked to the ceiling on industrial shelves like a rangeland Costco. In mid