Student Conservation Association Wildland Fire Academy members ready to make big impacts
Student Conservation Association members gathered in front of Shasta Lake after a long field day that included hose lays, line cutting, firing devices, shelter deployments and valuable conversations about real-world Forest Service careers and experiences. (Photo courtesy Dustin Chavez, Student…
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Southwest Engine Academy fosters wildfire engine skills for participants
Southwest Engine Academy student Aaron Ballesteros, right, learns about pumping mechanisms during a field day held Feb. 9, 2024, at the Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center in Glendale, Arizona. (USDA Forest Service photo by Randi Shaffer)
ARIZONA—Dozens of Southwest Region…
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New training available for agency employees managing IIJA, IRA funds or projects
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Forest Service received record levels of temporary funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in addition to regular appropriations.To be more effective stewards of the special funding, a recently piloted training program with…
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Tips for hosting a National Trails Day event: April 11 webinar
National Trails Day is a great day to get volunteers out on your trails. Here, volunteers cleared Heart Rock Trail of fallen trees and overgrown vegetation. (USDA Forest Service photo by Tania C. Parra)
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Go take a hike isn't a dismissal, it’s an invitation. National Trails Day…
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Webinar: Sifting through selective science, misinformation for collaborative forest management
COLORADO—Join Rocky Mountain Research Station and Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes for an upcoming land manager-focused panel webinar about selective science use, impacts to land management, and methods for reducing misinformation in collaborative forest management.Hear from subject matter experts who have effectively…
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CFO: Imprest fund policy modernization
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Forest Service offers places for the public to hike, bike, ski, and forage. Sometimes recreation activities require a fee. When visitors pay the fee with cash and need change returned, this is handled by an imprest fund cashier. This individual must follow federal policy,…