Trump job cuts could throw national parks and forests into ‘staffing chaos'
As their ranks diminish, park rangers say fewer employees could mean long entry lines, dirty bathrooms and potentially unsafe ...
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NC Coastal Reserve celebrates dedication of Bald Head Woods Reserve as an Old-Growth Forest
Bald Head Woods Reserve is a 191-acre component of the Coastal Reserve, added to the program in 1993 to protect the existing ...
These national park trails were created by America’s first Black soldiers
Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...
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Bald Head Woods added to Old-Growth Forest Network
The N.C. Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve, a program of the N.C. Division of Coastal Management in the ...
Scientists decode the DNA of one of America's most iconic trees, the white oak
Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one ...
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‘A Cascading Effect’: Forest Service, Park Service Workers who Lost Jobs Amid Mass Layoffs Explain Rippling Fallout
When Allison Borges was hired on as a weeds specialist with the U.S. Forest Service in May 2024, she was thrilled. She moved ...
A federal biologist learned he was fired while whale watching. Here’s his story (and warning)
As he grieves a job he loved and figures out what’s next, he has a warning for the public: National forests and the ...
Trump’s federal jobs cuts place our public lands in peril. ‘Like a slap in the face.’ | Opinion
An archeologist assigned to the Hume Lake Ranger District east of Fresno, Wingate is among thousands of US Forest Service and ...
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Mysterious rock source in national forest eyed as I-40's salvation
There’s nothing left of the mountainside that once held up I-40 after Pigeon River scoured away the slope, sending it tumbling into the river. Hauling in enough rock to pile ...
A conservationist is building bridges in the Amazon so monkeys can cross the road
Whitley Award-winning biologist Fernanda Abra’s Reconecta Project is building canopy bridges across highways in Brazil to protect endangered primates.