Heading into hiking and camping season, an already lean Forest Service staff will be stretched even thinner in the Cascades ...
At the North Cascades National Park, advocates had previously been sounding the alarm over lack of staffing. The North ...
said the reductions will mean far fewer search and rescue staff in federal wilderness lands like the Enchantments, and they will hurt wildfire season firefighting efforts. A Washington State ...
It is not yet clear how many federal workers have been terminated or how many live in Washington state. Lawsuits have ... help to unprepared hikers in the Enchantments. Kate White, a wilderness ...
Washington state’s congressional delegation introduced two bills to create wilderness areas in the Alpine Lakes regions of ...
This included chopping the team that manages the Enchantments in ... number of people laid off in Washington. The story was initially published by Washington State Standard, a nonprofit news ...
Each season, Kate White and her team typically carry 600lbs (270kg) of litter on their backs out of the Enchantments, a sensitive alpine wilderness located in Washington state that welcomes over ...