“Mismanagement of fire management has life-or-death consequences and places billions of taxpayer dollars at risk,” the lawmakers said. “Suppression alone cannot be the sole strategy for addressing ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fires have razed 1,400 structures, caused widespread power outages, and even killed two people. (Photo/File) The Department of ...