U.S. Forest Service Archives

Image shows the midwest and northeastern part of the U.S. and part of Canada covered by smoke from Canadian fires. — A June 2023 image from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-16 satellite shows smoke from wildfires in Canada over the midwest and northeastern regions of the U.S. GOES-16 was the first of four geostationary weather satellites in the GOES-R series. (Image via NOAA)

NOAA teams up with Agriculture, Interior on satellite-powered wildfire detection

Interior and the Forest Service will work with NOAA to use data from a fleet of weather satellites to improve the speed and accuracy of wildfire tracking.

Aug 6, 2024 By Madison Alder

One of USDA’s new automations will help the U.S. Forest Service pay invoices faster while fighting wildfires like this one near Fawnskin, California in 2007. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

USDA set to grow its ‘strategic’ RPA program in fiscal 2022

The department has 66 automations in production with 29 more on the way, after establishing an operations and maintenance service a year ago.

Nov 9, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

A traditional Christmas tree farm. (Ted Eytan / Flickr)

The newest Christmas tree farm is…a national forest?

The U.S. Forest Service launched a new website devoted to the harvesting of holiday evergreens this week.

Nov 20, 2018 By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier