Waves of budget cuts, layoffs and buyouts in the last year have decimated the U.S. Forest Service, but the shutdown is ...

Veterans can get wildland fire training through several federal and state agencies, abiding standards of the National ...

The fire that started in Pendleton County on Nov. 5 has burned 385 acres, but the change in weather on Monday and rain from ...

Bobbie Scopa recalled the days when a 12,000-acre wildfire was still considered a big deal. She was a 19-year-old, rookie wildland firefighter with the National Forest Service the year she first saw a ...

Weather helps fire crews reach 75 percent containment and limits the ability of fire to spread further on the Monongahela ...

Bipartisan legislation that aims to reduce wildfire risk by making its way through Congress and has backing from groups that ...

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Fire and EMS crews have been busy fighting brush fires in Botetourt County near the Craig ...

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and MountainTrue, sued the U.S. Forest Service today after the agency refused to stop an unlawful logging ...

Despite a slower rate of wildfire fuels reduction on federal forest lands, the Forest Service's firefighting policy could also boost levels of flammable materials in western forests.

Kiewit Infrastructure will reconstruct 31 trestle bridges, treadway and other damaged features along the Virginia Creeper ...