Interior Department stands up new wildland firefighting service, despite lack of funding ...

The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity, despite a lack of funding and some ...
Inside Climate News

Congress Has Doubts About the Trump Administration’s New Wildfire Management Plans

Neither the House nor the Senate included funding for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service in new spending bills. The Interior ...
E&E News

Interior names chief of new wildland fire office

Congress has balked at the Trump administration's push to move firefighting responsibilities from the Forest Service to ...
KNPR

The U.S. Wildland Fire Service has officially launched; but Congress has decided not to fund it

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has formally announced the establishment of the U.S. Wildland Fire Service (USWFS), a ...
Capital Press

Interior launches consolidated U.S. Wildland Fire Service

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, ...
E&E

Audit faults Interior handling of wildland fire funds

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 ...