Region 1 has lost almost a quarter of the staff it had at the peak of the past decade, when it employed 2,840 full- and part-time workers in 2003. Last year, after shedding some of the temporary ...

The U.S. Forest Service has received permission to hire seasonal workers despite a federal hiring freeze that left many summer job hunters in limbo. Forest Service Region 1 spokeswoman Elizabeth Slown ...

Last year featured watersheds of both kinds for the U.S. Forest Service’s Region 1, which has its headquarters in Missoula. In a year when the agency tried to stretch its influence across watershed or ...