List of Forest Orders

List of Forest Orders: Special orders are used to close or restrict the use of certain areas to protect public safety, prevent resource damage, protect wildlife populations, or other similar examples.

Proposed Developed Recreation Fee Changes

The Shasta-Trinity National Forest (STNF) is proposing changes to developed recreation fees for facilities under the REA Fee Program. The fee changes include new fees and increase of fees at several fee sites.

Status of Recreation Areas/Trails Impacted by natural events

Wildfires and other natural events, over the last two summers, have impacted recreation sites and trails, and some may be closed for safety and/or restoration work.  

Prescribed burns planned

The Shasta-Trinity National Forest plans to initiate prescribed fire operations this fall and over the winter, as weather patterns shift to cooler temperatures and wetter conditions. 

Anatomy of a fire response: How USFS wildland firefighters tackle wildfires 

A lot goes into how U.S. Forest Service firefighters respond to wildfire, much of which the public might not see. The planning, tactics and resources deployed to fight wildfires is a complex and ever-changing battle. 

So, what goes into fighting wildland fires? The following is a breakdown of how wildfires are fought, from beginning to end. 

Shasta-Trinity, volunteers and Tribal partners restores Natural Bridge

Shasta-Trinity National Forest Service employees, volunteers from the Northwest California Climbers Coalition, the Lassik Band of the Wylacki-Wintoon Nation, Inc., the Nor-Rel-Muk Wintu Nation, and the Wintu of Hayfork on Native Ancestral Lands worked in collaboration to conserve a culturally significant site known as Natural Bridge, July 13, 2024.

Shasta-Trinity and Trinity County RCD partner to create a healthier forest

Llewellyn, Forest Health Program manager at the Trinity County Resource Conservation District (TCRCD), represents a local agency partnering with the Shasta-Trinity National Forest to tackle one of the most urgent projects in America’s western woodlands: restoring the forest around her hometown into something more sustainable for the landscape and safer for the people who live there.