As a forestry technician and wilderness ranger for Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state, Downs picked up trash that campers left behind and buried human waste. Downs camped alongside ...

Wildland firefighters will keep a 4-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump.

Amid efforts by the Trump administration to purge the federal workforce, a group of Democratic lawmakers in Washington state ...

Federal workers help maintain millions of acres of protected land — and with climate change intensifying burns, conditions ...

According to 10 current and former Washington-based Forest Service employees ... between the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Okanogan-Wenatchee national forests. In total, 81 employees across those ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says campers and hikers should prepare for substantial travel delays on Icicle Road #7600 ...

At the North Cascades National Park, advocates had previously been sounding the alarm over lack of staffing. The North Cascades Conservation Council recently circulated a petition to reopen the ...

We are right around 200 in the combined forests that are in our local Washington state.” The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest spans about 3.8 million acres along the eastern slopes of the ...

Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Rick Larsen (WA-02), Marie Gluesenkamp ... including the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, where 46 USFS employees were terminated, along with at least 15 staffers working ...