The Biden administration is dropping its plan to conserve old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry.

On Tuesday, The Office of the Speaker of the House hosts the annual ceremony for the lighting of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, an 80-foot spruce selected from Zarembo Island in Alaska.

A ranching family in Oregon is applauding the arrest of the leader of a U.S. Forest Service crew that carried out a planned burn in a national forest that spread onto the family’s property.

The head of the U.S. Forest Service has denounced the arrest by an Oregon sheriff of a Forest Service employee after a planned burn in a national forest spread onto private land.

The U.S. government is resuming prescribed burning of National Forest lands across the nation to clear brush and small trees after a three-month pause to review and respond to climate change and risks of runaway wildfires.

The head of the U.S. Forest Service is suspending planned burning operations to clear out brush and small trees at all national forests while his agency conducts a 90-day review of protocols and practices.

Veteran forester Randy Moore has been named chief of the U.S. Forest Service, the first African American to lead the agency in its 116-year history.