The Kansas Forest Service (KFS) issued a press release on Wednesday, May 14, calling on the state’s residents to support the agency as it faces dire straits. The source of the KFS’s anxiety ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – According to the Kansas Forest Service, weather and drought conditions have set the stage for potentially one of the worst wildfire years Kansas has seen in a long time.

Kansas Forest Service with Kansas Fire Marshal and Kansas Division of Emergency Management will continue to provide wildland fire support throughout the state if the need for state resources is ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Kansas Division of Emergency Management has mission assigned the Kansas Army National Guard and Kansas Forest Service to deploy aerial assets to western and central ...

Bryce Haverkamp, a Kansas Forest Service management officer for the northeast part of the state, was sent to aid in controlling the fire. They were five hours into a tricky burn and were burning ...

KU scientists worked with the Kansas Forest Service and the Palmyra and Ottawa firefighters to safely burn about 40 acres of the Baldwin Woods Forest Preserve. North American oak-hickory canopies ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas Forest Service is reminding the community not to fly drones near wildfires. Kansas Forest Service stated on social media on Tuesday, Feb. 27 that as a reminder during ...

Kaylee Fritchen has worked at the U.S. Forestry Service since 2022, spending half the year undertaking intense manual labor to clear trails in an Idaho forest. She was in Manhattan, Kansas ...

Soldiers and Airmen from the Kansas National Guard partnered with the Kansas Forest Service and fire departments from all over the state in a wildland firefighting exercise. The Sept. 19 exercise ...

The FBI said Monday that a U.S. Forest Service officer fatally shot an unarmed Kansas man after an altercation near Sedona on Friday night. Glenn Milnor, an FBI spokesman in Phoenix, said in a ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Kansas Army National Guard and Kansas Forest Service have been deployed to help fight wildfires in multiple counties in western and central Kansas, the Kansas Division of ...