u.s. forest service

Attention local organizations! Submit your forest improvement project proposals to the USFS by October 3. About $600,000 in funding is available for activities like noxious weed control.

Over 25 volunteers with the American Red Cross were joined by Smokey Bear and others to share information about wildfire preparedness in the Cle Elum area on Saturday. The U.S. Forest Service, Washington Department of Natural Resources, and South Cle Elum Fire Department also took part in the event along with Sparky the Fire Dog...

Commissioners say a final Environmental Impact Statement on the project last month did not consider local concerns about the bears.

The resort near Wenatchee is adding Monday through Wednesday operations to the last two weeks of March and will now be open daily through the end of the month.

Overcrowded young trees will be removed from the forest and processed for use as lumber products on the market.

County Commissioner Shon Smith says he shot video Saturday capturing hundreds of cars parked along narrow roads leading to the trail heads of hiking areas.

Commissioner Tiffany Gering is leading an effort to figure out a way to dispose the debris which builds up on the shoreline.

Forest Service firefighters were stretched thin recently when out of control campfires interfered with their response to an outbreak of lightning caused fires.

U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Robin DeMario says the in-between time period known as shoulder season will take a while to arrive.

Applications are being taken until midnight next Wednesday the 2,700 camping slots available from the middle of May through the end of October.