President Donald Trump’s administration is reorganizing the U.S. Forest Service, relocating its headquarters to Salt Lake City and shuttering research facilities nationwide, including one in Seattle’s ...
The president is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season.
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WENATCHEE, Wash. — Inside a low-slung building on the outskirts of this town in north-central Washington state, federal scientists are examining how tree seedlings are responding to a drier, hotter ...
Despite the Trump administration’s public pronouncements that it has hired enough wildland firefighters, documents obtained by ProPublica show a high vacancy rate, as well as internal concern among ...