The Gifford Pinchot National Forest has announced plans for a temporary closure of the High Rock Trail No. 266 during the upcoming summer season. The closure is necessary to ensure public safety ...

Kindra Ramos of the Washington Trails Association estimates 15 Gifford Pinchot workers have been fired in recent weeks, based ...

The Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation has wanted an end to commercial picking of a critical cultural resource for years.

Traffic alert: Bridge to Roundtop Mountain Resort, Gifford Pinchot State Park to close for work He succumbed to his injuries ...

The group, appointed under former President Joe Biden, has completed its core assignment, but still has some remaining goals.

Well the major reason is that after what social critic H.L. Mencken called "the 13 awful years" of Prohibition, in 1933 Governor Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) disagreed with the repeal of the 18th ...

Crews from U.S. Forest Service alongside other first responders responded Monday to reports of a wildfire sparked by a ...

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Ben McLane, who serves in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southern Washington. The U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service employ more than 15,000 ...

A small population of foxes survives in the state’s southern Cascades, centered on Mount Rainier National Park and several wilderness areas on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. In addition to ...

Archival pigment print photo collage, 14 x 14 inches. Images used: Elaine Harvey, Epiphany Couch, Gifford Pinchot National Forest Archive. Credit: Epiphany Couch/High Country News ...