The USDA Forest Service plans to conduct prescribed fires this fall and upcoming spring on the Hoosier National Forest. Prescribed fire is used to maintain, restore or improve early successional ...

A proposed federal restoration plan seeks to log and burn portions of the Hoosier National Forest. (Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service) Hoosier National Forest is planning prescribed fire operations ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Ind. – After years of lawsuits and protests, the U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a wide-reaching management plan for the Hoosier National Forest that hopes to revitalize the ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Ind. — More than 100 people gathered at the Orange County Community Center in Paoli, Indiana Monday to protest a federal plan to regenerate Hoosier National Forest. "The entire thing ...

Earth Day — celebrated on Monday, April 22 — brought together community members, officials from regional groups as well as the U.S. Forest Service to discuss their vision for what's best for the ...

BEDFORD, Ind. (WISH) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is burning portions of the Hoosier National Forest. The agency says in a news release issued Wednesday that the prescribed ...

The controversial and slow-moving forest management plan inside the Hoosier National Forest hit another roadblock last week. All related activities — including timber sales, prescribed burns, road ...

PAOLI, Ind. (WDRB) -- Dozens of shirts reading "SAVE HOOSIER NATIONAL FOREST" hung on the shoulders of the people inside the Orange County Community Center. Those people, affiliated with several ...

The offices in Bedford and Tell City will be open from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. The Forest Service encourages visitors to call ahead to schedule appointments for ...

Federal workers across the U.S. are losing their jobs, including employees at the U.S. Forest Service. Reuters reported last month the Forest Service had fired 3,400 newly hired workers — although at ...