U.S Forest Service

The Forest Service will close its Wenatchee research lab as part of a nationwide restructuring.

Despite a lack of snow in the mountains this winter, the U.S. Forest Service is advising visitors to avoid attempting to use most roads in the National Forest.

Officials with the U.S. Forest Service are advising the public to be cautious when visiting the National Forest this winter.

A group of western lawmakers last week asked the USDA and Interior Department for additional wildfire fighting resources. Data from USDA’s Economic Research Service shows 89.8% of U.S. households were food secure throughout 2021.

Sonny Perdue announced emergency benefit increases have reached $2-billion per month for SNAP households to increase food security during the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. beef trade has been doing spectacularly for the first half of 2018, but indications are trade will slow on the world stage going forward.

NAFTA talk moving quickly but, more work to be done. Hearings being held on battling wildfire and tax cuts and farm bill spending.

SALEM (AP) — A U.S. Forest Service program that infused rural communities with millions to make up for lost timber revenue is drying up. Oregon faces a 90 percent reduction in the payments that have kept critical services afloat in many areas since environmental rules curtailed logging on federal land...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has issued a draft decision that would allow the Navy to expand its electronic warfare training on the Olympic Peninsula. Tuesday's proposed decision would authorize a special use permit for the Navy to conduct ground-to-air training using mobile electronic transmitters on Forest Service lands...

BOISE (AP) — Federal officials are reconsidering how roads and motorized trails in a portion of the Sawtooth National Forest could harm threatened bull trout following a lawsuit by an environmental group. As a result, a federal judge on Wednesday put the lawsuit by WildEarth Guardians on hold until Feb...