U.S. Department of Agriculture issues clarification after emergency order seeking to expand logging in national forests.

The Shining Rock Wilderness and Headwaters State Forest have reopened after heavy rains helped contain recent wildfires, ...

More than half of habitable land in Austin is now considered at risk of being damaged in a wildfire. That’s up from just under 40% nearly a decade ago.

The largest wilderness area in North Carolina has reopened after heavy rainfall helped contain and control a wildfire, ...

The U.S. Forest Service will not log in designated wilderness areas like the Boundary Waters, federal officials clarified ...

The iconic 6-mile roundtrip hike is in a red-ribboned rock formation in the Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness (which ... epic day of hiking in this area, though. We ended up at nearby ...

A map of the Rattlesnake Branch Fire in Haywood County as of ... as fire containment lines if the fire spreads west or northwest near the Shining Rock Wilderness Area boundary. Firefighting priorities ...

The worst-affected areas in Scotland will include Cairngorms National Park, the Southern Uplands, and the Loch Lomand area, where levels will be around 1cm. England will also see similar amounts ...

Three wilderness areas were established in Alabama when President Gerald Ford signed the Eastern Wilderness Act into law in 1975. Janice Barrett and Anne Markham Bailey from Wild Alabama ...

The U.S. Forest Service says its drone can more accurately map fires with an infrared camera ... on private land and the Shining Rock Wilderness Area in Pisgah National Forest, around the ...

Hikers and backpackers will once again need to secure permits to explore some of Oregon’s most popular wilderness areas, despite sweeping cuts to the federal agency that issues and enforces them.

The State Fire Marshal this week released new maps showing an increase in areas designated as “very high” fire risk — the first update in 14 years. As KPBS North County reporter Alexander ...