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Image shows Smokey Bear and several Forest Service employees riding and walking alongside a classic car decorated with Christmas lights. They're participating in a night-time holiday parade in a town square.
Join us and the Durand High School Madrigal Choir from Durand, Michigan, as we celebrate the holiday season with a Forest Service reinterpretation of that Christmas classic, "The 12 Days of Christmas!"

Join us and the Durand High School Madrigal Choir from Durand, Michigan, as we celebrate the holiday season with a reinterpretation of that Christmas classic, the 12 Days of Christmas! Sing along with
A student with boots crouches under a camera pointed at a brown bear in the stream.
Livestreaming pink salmon, black and brown bears from a remote creek in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
Tongass National Forest

Pink salmon fill the creek each summer at the Anan Wildlife Observatory near Wrangell, Alaska, returning to their ancestral spawning grounds after a year and a half at sea. Here on the Tongass
Smokey Bear balloon is held down by people wearing ponchos on city street.
Two Forest Service employees helped handle the Smokey Bear balloon in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

“Smokey, Smokey!” Tess McCarville and Alex Robertson revel hearing this chant for three hours as they slowly walk 2.5 miles, holding the ropes of a 16-foot long, 25-foot wide and 51-foot-tall Smokey
Image shows Forest Service personnel clearing trees and debris from a roadway.
Forest Service employees band together in herculean effort to support communities, forests & each other in storm-ravaged North Carolina
Pisgah National Forest, Nantahala National Forest

When Hurricane Helene hit the southeastern United States in late September 2024, its destruction spared neither national forests nor members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service
Native American ornaments of smiling, winking faces.
Thousands of Alaska-made tree ornaments will deck the halls on Capitol Hill, with many honoring Alaska Native Tribal traditions, culture and heritage
Tongass National Forest

In Alaska, holiday cheer began early this year. Alaskans and Alaska Native peoples spent their long summer days tapping into their inner artist, crafting nearly fifteen thousand beautifully handmade
Water trickles down a rock face with a small sprig of a plant grows through the rock.
Co-stewardship towards preserving a traditional water source
Kaibab National Forest

For many living in the arid Southwest, water is sacred; water is life. Recently the Hopi Tribe, independent cultural resource advisors, and the USDA Forest Service honored that spirit when they came
Close up of gray sand with water and trees in background.
Using trees to combat toxic sands

Walking along the shoreline of Lake Superior, you take in the view — expansive waters blending into blue skies — while beneath your feet is sandy crushed rock with the consistency of what feels like
Image shows wildland firefighters standing in line in a cafeteria to get food.
Job Corps culinary students gain valuable experience supporting wildland firefighters
Mt. Hood National Forest

It’s been a long, grueling day on the fire line. Wildland firefighters, with faces full of soot and ash file wearily towards the building at the center of the camp. A door swings open, and bright
A person fly fishing on a stream with large boulders and lush forest on both sides.
Forest legacy partners to protect forests in Maine

In the High Peaks region of Western Maine, a father and son sit perched on the edge of a knoll. Their figures are barely distinguishable against bare autumn branches and clear blue sky. The early
Tribal representatives pose in a row at Mount Democrat on Aug. 21, 2024.
How the Pike-San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands are working to strengthen tribal ties
Pike-San Isabel National Forests, Cimarron National Grassland, Comanche National Grassland

In Colorado, more than 50 American Indian tribes are federally recognized, with deep historical, cultural, spiritual and legal connections to the land. The Pike-San Isabel National Forests and