An experienced hiker, Robert Gretsch, was found dead in the Sierra National Forest after being reported missing by his group ...

A friend and colleague who has never shown the slightest interest in mountains, forests and meadows recently sent the following text: “Do you know anything about a national monument dispute at ...

Forest Service plans for Sierra and Sequoia national forests in California are being revised after the Creek Fire and SQF Complex. Prescribed fire should increase.

In a public announcement Sierra National Forest authorities said the closure was ordered "to provide for public safety" and cited "unknown hazards found in or near the Savage Lundy Trail." ...

Sierra National Forest closed numerous hiking trails, picnic areas and campgrounds, citing “unknown hazards found in and near the Savage Lundy Trail,” where a Mariposa family was mysteriously ...

Sierra National Forest Supervisor Dean Gould could not be reached for comment. Last month, Gould signed an order that extended the closures of 21 campgrounds, 13 roads and four trails until May 19 ...

Associated Press. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — A wildfire that threatened a grove of California’s giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was burning eastward into the Sierra National Forest on ...

With the fire’s spread into the Sierra National Forest, authorities have closed Forest Routes 5S43; 5S06, which is also known as Mt. Raymond Road; 5S22; and 5S37, forest officials said.

A daring attempt to save a young bald eagle trapped for weeks in the rugged Plumas National Forest ended sadly, despite the ...

The largest was the Creek Fire (nearly 380,000 acres) in Sierra National Forest, more than double the size of the SQF Complex (over 174,000 acres) which burned a portion of Sequoia National ...

Sierra National Forest also described the closures as a “precaution.” The original Forest Order No. 05-15-51-21-18 was replaced by Forest Order No. 05-15-51-21-21, that extends through Oct. 29.

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot on the UN cultural ...