Forest Ranger Corenne Black has hiked more than 1,000 peaks around the world and still has a lengthy to-do list.

but harrowing, cliffs and ridgelines. The Forest Bureau maintains simple, high-mountain cabins for overnight backpackers.

U.S. Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a dying art.

Staffing uncertainties and delayed reimbursements threaten to gut the U.S. Forest Service’s capacity to care for the 1.8 ...