Over 60 years of total fire suppression policy led to more intense fires that are more dangerous and difficult to extinguish. The cost of fire suppression, unsurprisingly, has increased from 16 to over 50 percent of the U.S. Forest Service's annual budget. Government…
Because it’s not happening in New York or D.C. or Los Angeles, it doesn’t really count as news. When a few snowflakes begin to fall in Washington, it’s a national emergency. When Los Angeles has a lot of traffic on Thanksgiving, it…
Fallout from Forest Service damage to Trail of Tears escalates The fallout continues after the construction more than two years ago of 35 earthen berms along almost a mile of the Trail of Tears in the Cherokee National Forest. A…
U.S. Forest Service admits damaging recently-preserved section of Trail of Tears by Ben Benton Times Free Press COKER CREEK, Tenn. — A section of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail in the Cherokee National Forest preserved just two years…