Twelve days of forest Christmas
Sing along with this Forest Service twist on a holiday classic!
Let’s celebrate the holiday season with a forest-themed version of that Christmas classic, the 12 Days of Christmas. Here are the lyrics so you can sing along! On the 12th day of Christmas, the forest gave to me: 12 rangers ranging 11 elk herds grazing 10 goats a leaping 9 flowers blooming 8 mules a packing 7 swans a swimming 6 geese a laying 5 oak rings 4 shade trees 3 trailheads 2 turtle bogs and wise words from a bear named Smokey: Only YOU can prevent wildfires! Thank you to the 2024 Durand...-
Twelve days of forest Christmas
December 16,2025
Let’s celebrate the holiday season with a forest-themed version of that Christmas classic, the 12 Days of Christmas. Here are the lyrics so you can sing along! On the 12th day of Christmas, the forest -
Breathing life back into the woods
December 8,2025
Launched in 2010, the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) emerged from a critical need. After a hundred years of fire suppression, ponderosa forests became dangerously crowded, posing risks to -
Finding the $5 Christmas tree
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Many families across the United States celebrate the holiday season with a Christmas tree. Although farmed and fake Christmas trees are full, symmetrical, and simple to get, they can be pricey. And -
Pikes Peak: Partnerships on America’s mountain
November 25,2025
USDA Forest Service employee Preston Keres takes us on a tour of the new Pikes Peak Visitor Center. (USDA Forest Service video by Preston Keres) Rising to 14,115 feet, Pikes Peak is a landmark that -
Editors’ note: This is a guest article from the National Forest Foundation. We believe in a world where caring for forests is second nature. At the National Forest Foundation, we transform America's -
Community roots, lasting impact
November 17,2025
The Salmon-Challis National Forest is no stranger to wildfire. Its rugged terrain spans 4.3 million acres across Central Idaho with much of the land affected by fires over the past few decades. The -
More than a road
September 29,2025
As Hurricane Helene devastated the Southern Appalachians, it brought a deluge of water that destroyed hundreds of miles of roads, from winding mountain roads all the way to interstate highways. When -
Three cheers for volunteers
September 25,2025
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe For more than 100 years, USDA Forest Service volunteers have embodied the attitude and spirit behind these words in the name of -
All of us were affected
September 22,2025
Only a month after the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, another anniversary comes due for a different catastrophic storm—it is the first anniversary after Hurricane Helene devastated the
