Feature Stories

Timber products have been sustaining the American way of life for centuries and are deeply rooted in our culture. Much has been learned about sustainable forest management, timber harvesting and

Forest Service scientist Dr. Ron Zalesny clutches a poplar tree within a stand of 260 and rattles off the Latin names of all the tree genotypes he and his team chose for the project. The genotypes are

When you work with wood products, every week is forest products week! But this week, October 15-21, 2023, is when we take a moment to celebrate National Forest Products Week and all the people who

It’s been a long drive and an even longer work week, but your spirit lightens at the thought of enjoying a weekend in the great outdoors. As thoughts of work fade away and the wild landscape fills

As Kristen Francis looks out across the quiet expanse of the Kaibab Plateau in Northern Arizona, she wonders at what all the land has seen and what we can learn if we look closely. “We learn from the

Deep in a canyon in Colorado, six Forest Service trucks from Nebraska sit in the shade of a row of pines as firefighters pile brush nearby. A wildland fire crew from Nebraska’s Pine Ridge Job Corps is

When you think of beavers, what comes to mind? Busy engineers, pesky rodents, or how about firefighters? You may already know that beavers are a keystone species, meaning many other species of animals

Over the past few months, we have highlighted wildland firefighters who support the Forest Service mission to protect our nation’s forests, grasslands and nearby communities from wildfires

Hurricanes can have devastating impacts on our forests at both the local and landscape scale. The intense wind and precipitation brought on by these storms snaps trees like toothpicks, impacting

Historically, the Forest Service and Tribal Nations haven’t always seen eye to eye. This is understandable, given the complex history between the two. But history also shows that perspectives and