Fighting a bat-killing fungus
The generator that runs the sodium lights in Minnetonka Cave just outside of St. Charles, Idaho, on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest has been winterized and the lights are off for the season. But
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Wood Innovation Grants support timber industry, healthy forests
Timber products have been sustaining the American way of life for centuries and are deeply rooted in our culture. Much has been learned about sustainable forest management, timber harvesting and
Using trees to clean up contamination goes international
Forest Service scientist Dr. Ron Zalesny clutches a poplar tree within a stand of 260 and rattles off the Latin names of all the tree genotypes he and his team chose for the project. The genotypes are
Celebrating National Forest Products Week
When you work with wood products, every week is forest products week! But this week, October 15-21, 2023, is when we take a moment to celebrate National Forest Products Week and all the people who
Keeping Smokey Bear’s message alive for generations
It’s been a long drive and an even longer work week, but your spirit lightens at the thought of enjoying a weekend in the great outdoors. As thoughts of work fade away and the wild landscape fills
Discovering past and people
Kaibab National Forest
As Kristen Francis looks out across the quiet expanse of the Kaibab Plateau in Northern Arizona, she wonders at what all the land has seen and what we can learn if we look closely. “We learn from the
Fire shapes Job Corps student’s futures and the landscape
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grassland,
Pawnee National Grassland
Deep in a canyon in Colorado, six Forest Service trucks from Nebraska sit in the shade of a row of pines as firefighters pile brush nearby. A wildland fire crew from Nebraska’s Pine Ridge Job Corps is
Fighting fires, one beaver dam at a time
Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
When you think of beavers, what comes to mind? Busy engineers, pesky rodents, or how about firefighters? You may already know that beavers are a keystone species, meaning many other species of animals
A Wildfire Crisis Strategy focus
Angeles National Forest,
Cleveland National Forest,
Los Padres National Forest,
San Bernardino National Forest
Editor’s note: The Forest Service, now in its second year of implementing its Wildfire Crisis Strategy, is treating 11 additional landscapes across the country to help reduce wildfire risk to
Local communities benefit economically in fall
Mt. Hood National Forest,
White River National Forest,
George Washington and Jefferson National Forests,
White Mountain National Forest
As the days grow shorter and a subtle chill fills the air, one of nature's most fascinating transformation begins across the varied landscapes of the United States. From the magnificent soaring