As a forestry technician and wilderness ranger for Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state, Downs picked up trash that campers left behind and buried human waste. Downs camped alongside ...

Prescribed burning operations will begin across the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest as soon as weather and fuel moisture ...

Prescribed burning operations will begin across the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, including several areas in the Methow Valley, as soon as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow, the U.S.

a Forest Service employee in Washington state’s Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest until he was fired this month. Henderson’s job was to prepare the forest for private logging operations ...

While the fired workers do not include firefighters, the move has impacted Forest Service employees ... lead wilderness ranger at the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest when he was fired earlier ...

Amid efforts by the Trump administration to purge the federal workforce, a group of Democratic lawmakers in Washington state ...

Wickenheiser was one of 40 Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest employees caught in sweeping layoffs in the U.S. Forest Service. All of his colleagues received an email stating they were terminated ...

At the North Cascades National Park, advocates had previously been sounding the alarm over lack of staffing. The North Cascades Conservation Council recently circulated a petition to reopen the ...

and a small team of forest service workers tend to the animals, which are used to pack supplies, building materials and fire equipment deep into the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.