Up to 30% of bird diversity hotspots, places where large numbers of different bird species occur, in the western United States face threats from high-severity wildfires in the future that could ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Discover Your Northwest has announced the inaugural Youth Wildland Fire Career Camp, a free, multi-day program designed to introduce youth ages 16-20 to the exciting and diverse ...

A group of US Forest Service firemen walk down a road after a fire in the Los Padres National Forest in California. A new federal organization called the U.S. Wildland Fire Service has been ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A structure fire sparked a wildland fire in the Allenspark area near mile marker 10 of Highway 7 on Monday afternoon. Just after 2 p.m. on Monday, the Allenspark Fire Protection ...

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has formally announced the establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service (USWFS), a development that came the same week that the U.S. Congress declined to fund ...

Congress recently passed a bill that does not include funding for the new U.S. Wildland Fire Service. Credit: Kevin Carter via Getty Images The Trump administration last week established a new ...

HOUSTON – You may have noticed the plume of smoke on the west side of town on Sunday, but fire officials say “there is no need for alarm.” Authorities are working to contain a grass fire in the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity. This week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the initial steps were complete ...

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a unification of programs previously part of six DOI agencies and offices.

MISSOULA, Mont. — After six surgeries and 16 months—492 days—of rehabilitation, Forest Service wildland firefighter Justin Shaw is finally back home in Idaho. Shaw was severely injured on Aug. 10, ...

QUILCENE — The state Department of Natural Resources delivered a wildland fire engine to Quilcene Fire Rescue as part of its wildland fire prevention programming. The delivery comes amid increasingly ...

A West Coast Wildland firefighter is now in a wheelchair after being shot four times outside a Wesley Chapel apartment complex. Pasco deputies arrested the victim's girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, who is ...