Amid dramatic cuts to the U.S. Forest Service, nonprofit groups have had to supply the chainsaws, shovels, and manpower to ...

The recent order from the U.S. Forest Service includes Forest Service Trail 640, also known as the Waldo Canyon Trail. It also keeps the surrounding land closed to camping or building a campfire.

The Forest Service estimates the total cost of the project – including building new trails, reclaiming old trails and developing trailheads spread over three to five years – at $1.9 million.

Last year, the U.S. Forest Service provided the Florida Trail Association $800,000 for construction, maintenance, acquisition and education. In return, volunteers provided more than $1 million in ...

The Forest Service LTBMU is, by far, the largest land manager in the Tahoe Basin. Some 78% of the basin is public land that’s managed by the U.S. Forest Service, a total of 156,335 acres.

The plan would allow skilled trail workers to continue their work this summer, after half of the U.S. Forest Service trail crews were fired last month by the Trump administration.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 106 miles of trails would be open in the U.S. Forest Service's 154,000-acre Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.