High Glade Lookout rebuilt and ready for fire duty
“Temperature is 69 degrees. Relative humidity is 48%. Winds from the south, 2-3 miles per hour. High Glade,” said Annelle Durham as she lowered the radio, a callout eight years in the making. In 2018, the 85-year-old High Glade fire lookout tower burned to the ground in the Ranch Fire. Today, it's back in business, thanks to disaster funding provided to the Forest Service. Durham, a long-time lookout who previously served at High Glade, and Aslan Mitchell, a newcomer to the work, began their...
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High Glade Lookout rebuilt and ready for fire duty
August 28,2026
“Temperature is 69 degrees. Relative humidity is 48%. Winds from the south, 2-3 miles per hour. High Glade,” said Annelle Durham as she lowered the radio, a callout eight years in the making. In 2018 -
Training before the fire: Where preparation meets the line
August 26,2026
The orange cones are set, and the clock starts running. Inside the cab of a Forest Service fire engine, a firefighter from Wyoming grips the wheel and begins running the truck backward through a -
Restoring Hanging Lake
July 28,2026
In the spring of 2023, Emily Kasyon hiked the Hanging Lake Trail in the White River National Forest for the first time. The water was so high she waded through it the entire way up. “My very first -
Resurrection Creek: A river reborn
July 21,2026
The Resurrection Creek Restoration Project is healing a century-old environmental scar near Hope, Alaska, by bringing together traditionally opposing forces—including conservation groups, federal -
No reservation? No problem!
July 10,2026
Dispersed camping – camping outside of a designated, prepared campsite – isn’t for everyone. But it might be for you. With 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands spreading across landscapes -
Reforestation: Nature and nurseries
July 8,2026
Reforestation at scale requires science, coordination and committed partners. And that’s exactly what’s underway in the Mendocino National Forest. (Forest Service video by Andrew Avitt) Nature will -
Shaping America's public lands over 121 years
July 2,2026
Video by Preston Keres This year, as we celebrate the nation’s founding, the Forest Service looks back to its own creation and guiding principles. Since 1905, conservation, a paradigm to sustainably -
Forest Service pilots lift off an unmanned aircraft system shortly after sunrise, climbing above a burned area from the Cameron Peak Fire in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee -
Caring for the land after the fire
June 25,2026
Not long ago, these hillsides were completely blackened. Trees stood scorched. Now early spring grasses cover the ground, bringing new growth to the charred remains of a 2024 wildfire that swept
