The Wildland Fire Service also stops short of folding in wildland fire personnel or programs from the USDA’s Forest Service.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior is rolling out a two-pronged push to strengthen America’s wildfire defenses ...

The Department of the Interior announced a new partnership Monday between the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of ...

Students at Two Eagle River School in Pablo, Montana are among those participating in a new Department of the Interior initiative designed to prepare native you ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity. This week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the initial steps were complete ...

“In too many cases, including in California, a slow and inadequate response to wildfires is a direct result of reckless ...

The federal government will combine its wildland firefighting operations within the Interior Department into a single new agency, dubbed the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, according to memos released ...

The Trump administration has taken the first steps in standing up its new, consolidated federal firefighting agency, despite Congress declining to fund it and voicing bipartisan reservations about the ...

A 2021 package provided the Interior Department $878 million for wildland fuels management over a five-year period. Interior Department agencies mishandled and in some cases misspent supplemental ...

Congress has balked at the Trump administration’s push to move firefighting responsibilities from the Forest Service to Interior, but the department is taking its own steps to consolidate wildfire ...