Red Bluff Recreation Area Prescribed and Cultural Burn 05.21.2026 | Photo by Laura Leidner A wildland firefighter with the Mendocino Hotshots is silhouetted against rising smoke during a collaborative prescribed and cultural burn at the...
Caldor Fire Reforestation Work Continues Across... 05.13.2026 | Photo by Andrew Avitt A recently planted Jeffrey pine seedling grows at the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort in California during a project in the Caldor Fire burn scar, May...
Timber Harvesting and Transport on the Carson... 05.13.2026 | Photo by Zachary Behrens Employees and contractors of Blanca Forestry Products use a knuckle boom crane to load a log truck on the Carson National Forest near Taos, New...
Tongass National Forest Fire Response 11 Mile Fire 05.06.2026 | Photo by Paul Robbins Jr. A burned area on Prince of Wales Island shows the burned area of a wildland fire that burned .42 acres in the Tongass Protection Area, May 06,...
12-Mile Wildlife Habitat Improvement and Commercial... 05.01.2026 | Photo by Paul Robbins Jr. A resource specialist marks a tree for removal during the layout for the 12-Mile Wildlife Habitat Improvement and Commercial Thinning Project on...
California Aerial Supervision Academy 04.29.2026 | Photo by Andrew Avitt A bundle of para-cargo floats under a parachute after being dropped from a Shorts C-23 Sherpa during the California Aerial Supervision Academy in...
Busy airspace: Record number of consumer drones are... 04.23.2026 | Courtesy Photo While unauthorized drones in restricted airspace can halt firefighting air operations, the Forest Service is increasingly incorporating uncrewed...
Reforestation Mendocino National Forest 04.15.2026 | Photo by Andrew Avitt A reforestation crew member plants a seedling on the Mendocino National Forest near Clear Lake, California, April 15, 2026. The U.S. Forest...
Aerial Views of Tallac Creek 06.01.2026 | Video by Andrew Avitt Drone footage of Tallac Creek near the shore of Lake Tahoe on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. (Forest Service video by Andrew Avitt and...
Aerial View from Angora Lookout 06.01.2026 | Video by Andrew Avitt Drone footage from Angora Lookout in South Lake Tahoe on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. (Forest Service video by Andrew Avitt and George...
Aerial Views from Fallen Leaf Lake 06.01.2026 | Video by Andrew Avitt Drone footage of landscapes around Fallen Leaf Lake on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. (Forest Service video by Andrew Avitt and George Gusses)
Forest Service Honor Guard: Dignified Transfer of... 06.01.2026 | Video by John Dickey The Forest Service honors fallen personnel with deep respect for their service and heartfelt care for their families during a Dignified Transfer...
Aerial Views from Baldwin Beach 06.01.2026 | Video by Andrew Avitt Drone footage of Lake Tahoe, recreation, and Baldwin Beach on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (Forest Service video by Andrew Avitt and...
Dixie National Forest Firefighters Complete... 05.21.2026 | Video by Jennifer Plecki Wildland firefighters from the Pine Valley and Cedar City Ranger Districts gather at the U.S. Forest Service-operated Oak Grove Campground near...
Eldorado National Forest Reforestation (B-Roll) 05.12.2026 | Video by Andrew Avitt Reforestation crews progress through the tree planting process from loading and preparing native seedlings to walking out and planting them along...
Eldorado National Forest Post-Fire Reforestation... 05.12.2026 | Video by Andrew Avitt A macro view shows newly planted coniferous seedlings at the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort within the Eldorado National Forest in California during a...
Reach for the Sky 05.13.2026 | Story by Joshua Boisvert Students from Flatwoods and Jacobs Creek Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers supported U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prescribed fire...
Bulldozers of fire: Heavy equipment fighting and... 04.30.2026 | Story by Andrew Avitt Wildland firefighting is a coordinated effort. Like players on a sports team or musicians in an orchestra, hand crews, smokejumpers, water...
Ready for Wildfire 04.30.2026 | Story by Evan Burks Forest Service ramps up for expected busy wildfire season. The warning signs flashed early this year. After a dismal winter snowpack across many...
Busy airspace: Record number of consumer drones are... 04.23.2026 | Story by Andrew Avitt In 2025, there were 218 drone sightings over active wildfires. Most of these occurred during last year’s Eaton and Palisades Fires in Los...
Tapped Potential: National Forest Maple 04.21.2026 | Story by Briana Shepherd Actively managing the forest ensures people willing to work the land can do so for generations.
The Fire that Never Starts 03.07.2026 | Story by Andrew Avitt Nicole Molinari, Forest Service ecologist and Robert Fitch postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara discuss what a...
Water in the West is life 02.24.2026 | Story by Travis Weger On Colorado’s Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests, water for the region begins as snow in high-elevation locations before...
Post-wildfire restoration in the 2018 Camp Fire... 02.11.2026 | Story by Andrew Avitt Across the West, land managers are working together to accomplish what they cannot do alone — to restore massive areas affected by past wildfire...
Forest Service Podcast: Science You Can Use -... 05.27.2026 | Audio by Jessica Brewen Forest managers are increasingly looking to restore ponderosa pine forests to more ecologically diverse conditions—forests with clusters of...
Forest Service Podcast: Science You Can Use -... 05.27.2026 | Audio by Jessica Brewen For 25 years, ranchers in South Dakota have used the South Dakota Drought Tool to estimate forage productivity of grazing lands. This crucial...
Hatch me if you can: New hatchR tool helps predict... 05.01.2026 | Audio by Alexis Neukirch Hidden like fish eggs in the streambed, the answer was buried in the mathematical models of Morgan Spark’s graduate work. Biologists and land...
Forest Service Podcast: Science You Can Use -... 04.20.2026 | Audio by Jessica Brewen Hostile winds yanked at the yellow transect tapes. Stephanie Yelenik and fellow researchers plodded on, endeavoring to place tapes in an organized...
Forest Service Podcast: Science You Can Use Tool -... 04.13.2026 | Audio by Jessica Brewen For nearly 100 years, the Forest Service has inventoried America’s forest resources to provide a scorecard of forest health, vitality, and...
Forest Service Podcast: Science You Can Use -... 04.13.2026 | Audio by Jessica Brewen Did you know your cellphone’s GPS locations can help us decipher how recreationists and wildlife overlap in time and space? Mark Ditmer, a...
Forest Service Podcast: Science You Can Use -... 03.24.2026 | Audio by Jessica Brewen Land managers rely on best available information and relevant research for decision making, but matching the right information to the right...
Forest Service Podcast: Science You Can Use - How... 03.20.2026 | Audio by Alexis Neukirch In early 2024, Michael Caggiano, a wildland firefighter and regional fire analyst with the Forest Service, approached David Flores, a research...
Forest Focus Forest Focus is an audio program about the National Forests in California. Episodes focus on issues such as ecological restoration, fire,...
Forest Service Podcast Step into the wild with us as we share the many voices of the Forest Service. From groundbreaking science that helps us understand and protect our...
Ready for Wildfire 04.30.2026 | Graphics by Forest Service OC Graphic highlighting wildfire response and mitigation benefits. It notes that wildland firefighters complete 3–4 million acres of hazardous fuel...
Ready for Wildfire 04.30.2026 | Graphics by Forest Service OC Graphic showing U.S. Forest Service wildland fire resources, including hotshot crews, Type 2 crews, engines, heavy equipment, aircraft,...
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