The Wildland Fire Service also stops short of folding in wildland fire personnel or programs from the USDA’s Forest Service.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity. This week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the initial steps were complete ...

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 ...

Congress has balked at the Trump administration’s push to move firefighting responsibilities from the Forest Service to Interior, but the department is taking its own steps to consolidate wildfire ...