The Forest Service manages just shy of 200 million acres of land and is the nation’s largest fire fighting agency. Officials there and others across the West tasked with fighting and managing fire ...

Long ago, Southern California’s scrub-forest ecosystems would periodically burn, limiting fuel for future fires. But aggressive fire suppression and inattention to urban overgrowth have left ...

The vegetation offers comforting shade from the blazing Florida sun, and the trails are very soft on the feet as one walks through the world's largest contiguous sand pine scrub forest.

News sites report employees across all agencies overseen by U.S. Department of Agriculture were instructed to take down climate change pages ...