As the wildfire season is beginning, some wild land firefighters are worried their safety could be at risk since the government has been slow to adopt new COVID-19 protocols.
Insecticides and other chemicals found at the sites threaten long-term damage to ecosystems. California law enforcement, ecologists and others are cracking down.
Chief Vicki Christiansen says the danger is now year-round, thanks to hazardous conditions in forests, rampant home development and the changing climate.
Western towns surrounded by and dependent upon public lands are forced to get creative as federal recreation budgets continue a slow decline. They are boosting local efforts to maintain public access.
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says it has concluded that oil and gas leasing isn't suitable for Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest land in a mountain range in northeastern Nevada's Elko County that is a popular recreation area.
The U.S. Forest Service has tentatively approved a plan to build two chairlifts and a snow bridge across a state highway southwest of Reno to allow skiers at the Mount Rose Ski resort to access 11 new trails proposed farther down the mountain.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas is known as a dry desert town but the city’s urban trees can be overlooked when competing for attention with the city’s flash and neon.
The current version of the Farm Bill includes House-backed provisions that would streamline logging projects on federal land. The administration argues logging could mitigate wildfire risk.
MOUNT CHARLESTON, Nev. (AP) — A ski area near Las Vegas could get a winter sports makeover and add summer thrill rides and zip lines under a plan that federal officials have posted for public comment.
The U.S. Forest Service has reopened the comment period on plans to offer oil and gas leases in parts of the Ruby Mountains, about 370 miles north of Las Vegas.
Seventeen of Nevada’s counties are joining forces to tell the U.S. Forest Service what they want from a land management plan that includes the conservation of the sage grouse.
