#Weather | US Forest Service

All of us were affected

Image shows a mass of tree limbs and trunks and other debris piled on top of a stone bridge while a woman in safety gear stands nearby.

Hurricane Helene reached Category 4 before making landfall in Florida. (Image courtesy of NOAA) Only a month after the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, another anniversary comes due for a different catastrophic storm—it is the first anniversary after Hurricane Helene devastated the…

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Salvaging success

Image shows construction equipment lifting salvaged timber into a logging truck for transport off the national forest.

When a tornado swept through the Sabine National Forest in March 2025, it left behind a trail of broken trees, downed limbs and hundreds of acres of damaged timber. But in just 28 days, the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, turned destruction into opportunity by mobilizing resources, assessing the damage and awarding two salvage stewardship sales to help…

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