The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity, despite a lack of funding and some skepticism from members of Congress.

The new agency will be composed of the multiple fire programs within the Department of the Interior. Congress funded other ...

Congress has balked at the Trump administration's push to move firefighting responsibilities from the Forest Service to Interior, but the department is ...

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

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

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 ...

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, a unification of programs previously part of six DOI agencies and offices.