Thank you. - Welcome to "Impact" from Montana PBS Reports. I'm Stan Parker. US Forest Service employees are reeling after a previous hiring freeze collided with recent mass layoffs, directed by ...

Tom Schultz, the Forest Service’s new chief, has a master’s degree in forestry from the University of Montana and ties to ... “None of us wants to go out and destroy the environment, ...

As of the latest March 24 evening update, maps indicated that one fire in Polk County had hopped the Green River.

Timber production from national forests has fallen dramatically since the days of the “Timber Wars” in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Scientists warn of wildfire risks as urban areas expand Missoula lab studies fire behavior to aid global fire management Last Forest Service lab standing pursuing such research MISSOULA ...

MISSOULA, Montana ... The Forest Service added that a waiver removing a cost-sharing requirement that had been available to Native American, Alaska Native, Pacific Island and US Virgin Islands ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins named Tom Schultz as the new chief of the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday ... a graduate of the University of Montana's master's degree program ...

WASHINGTON — A former land manager and lumber producer in Idaho has been appointed to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service ... and worked for the Montana Department ...

President Donald Trump’s March 1 executive order calling for “immediate expansion of American timber production” generated ...

Tom Schultz, former director of the Idaho Department of Lands, was named chief of the U.S. Forest Service to succeed ... held leadership roles in Montana’s Department of Natural Resources ...