Renovating Northern cabins: Forest Service improves rental cabins using Great American Outdoors Act funding
The Forest Service is home to some of the most renowned recreational accommodations across the country. Offerings range from old homesteads, historic log ranger stations and early 20th century lookouts built by the Civilian Conservation Corps to the modern cabins and watchtowers of today.
The Star…
recreation, cabins, outdoors, Great American Outdoors Act, forest, montana, idaho
Harmony on the river: Chinook salmon and boaters coexist on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River
Resource specialists conduct a redd survey on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River; Salmon-Challis National Forest. USDA Forest Service Photo
The Middle Fork of the Salmon River originates at the confluence of Marsh and Bear Valley Creeks in central Idaho near Stanley. The wild and scenic river winds…
salmon, idaho, Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, chinook salmon
The People Who Make U.S. National Wildland Fire Management the Best in the World
Boise, Idaho is famous among college football fans for the blue turf on the Boise State University Broncos’ field. But in wildland fire management circles, the city is just as well-known as home of the National Interagency Fire Center or NIFC.NIFC is the nation’s support center for wildland fire management and other types of incidents. Some even refer to it as the Pentagon or nerve center…
wildland fire fire management Forest Service FS Fire Aviation Management, idaho, National Interagency Fire Center NIFC
A century of skiing with the US Forest Service
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