How will land management agencies be affected when their wildfire expertise is transferred to the new, centralized firefighting agency?

The administration is consolidating the federal response to wildfires across the West, shifting 3,900 firefighters to the Wildland Fire Service. The Trump administration’s new wildfire agency is ...

The reorganization is part of an effort by the Trump administration to unify fire response on federal lands, but critics question if it will harm overall land management. The Interior Department has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildfire preparedness in Arizona and other states took a hit last year from funding and staff cuts to federal public land agencies ...