Indian Youth Service Corp making a difference in Oregon
Inter-tribal crew members in Lomakatsi’s Tribal Youth Ecological Forestry Training Program conduct ecological thinning within the Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project, near Ashland, Oregon. (USDA Forest Service video by Preston Keres) At sunrise in the beautiful lands of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in Ashland, Oregon, a group of tribal youth gather to begin a busy day…
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Ensuring safety and offering support
USDA Forest Service employees do incredible work in a variety of exciting roles, but through all of them, safety remains a constant priority.
Fighting wildland fire, running whitewater rapids, using heavy machinery, interacting with wildlife, and parachuting into rugged terrain.…
careers, drug testing, Recruitment
Rising through the ranks
A career day at Chaparral High School in Temecula, California. That’s what changed Cole Weissgerber’s life. Before then, he wasn’t really sure what he wanted to do with his life (who really does know what they want to be at age 17?). But the USDA Forest Service’s presence at the school that day drew Weissgerber into the fire service. Oddly enough, it wasn’t the thought of saving communities or…
california, careers, wildland firefighters
Find your path: One engineer's story
Shanisha Reese, deputy director of engineering for the Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt)
Consider looking at the forest from another perspective — you arrived there by road, launched your boat by ramp, crossed a canyon by bridge, and…
careers, pacific southwest region
Students of fire
Nebraska’s Pine Ridge Job Corps’ Soldier Creek Wildland Fire Hand Crew. (USDA Forest Service photo by Chris Green)
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…
firefighters, careers, civilian conservation corps
A Forest Service hydrologist talks water
Kaci Spooner, a forest hydrology technician for the Modoc National Forest. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt)
National forests provide an estimated 20% of the nation’s water, and 60% in California. Hydrologists on those national forests know its importance. It’s meaningful work, and those that care for water on those public lands will…