Two local former U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service employees who worked to keep the public informed during last month’s disastrous wildfires are part of the thousands of federal workers who were recently laid off.
U.S. Forest Service Chief announced his retirement as 3,400 agency employees face layoffs amid Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE federal government purge.
U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Monterey Park, was among dozens of lawmakers urging the Trump administration Wednesday to reverse its decision to fire 3,400 federal workers from the U.S. Forest Service, which manages 193 million acres of public lands.
U.S. national forests are maintained by an army of Forest Service workers, but recent cuts could have the forests looking very different this summer.
An assistant wildlife biologist with Los Padres National Forest is among the thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees
Fired U.S. National Forest and National Parks employees are speaking out about the mass layoffs by the Trump administration.
Thousands of employees with the U.S. Forest Service were fired over the weekend, including some in Southern Oregon and Northern California.
As heavy rain from a large storm subsided, officials in Southern California said rock and mudslides remain a threat.
Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in California’s Sierra ...
Thousands of Park Service and Forest Service employees have been fired, leaving few left to clean bathrooms, maintain trails ,or save lives.
Thousands of National Park and Forest workers are being fired as the federal government cuts back on spending.
A freeze on the hiring and onboarding of thousands of federal firefighters could have deadly consequences as the national wildfire response operates at a "diminished capacity," a federal firefighting captain told NBC News.