The U.S. Forest Service focuses restoration efforts focusing on water, soil and trees, and using fire as a tool to try and reduce risks of bigger fires. It’s a job that requires a lot of tools, ...

U.S. Forest Service employees who gathered for a training in Rifle earlier this month weren’t there to learn about how to make use of newfangled things such as drones or artificial intelligence to do ...

The Bill Van Learn How to Pack Stock Clinic will return to Clovis on Saturday, March 26. Now in its sixth year, the annual event will feature both mule and horse packing lessons and competitions, with ...

During the spring, summer, and fall, Forest Service mules work packing culverts, tools, and supplies into the backcountry under the supervision of their human handlers. It’s hard work. ”(They’re) ...

For more on the Independence Pass Foundation or to volunteer, visit http://www.independencepass.org. For the first time in more than 50 years, a trip to Mountain Boy ...

A Vancouver Barracks mule train returns from the Lacamas Creek artillery range (renamed Camp Bonneville in 1909) along the city streets around 1908. The convoy heads down 10th Street (now Evergreen ...

HUSON, Mont. — Last winter, NBC Montana brought you a story of the Ninemile Remount Depot's mules and horses that clear trails in our wilderness areas, From November to May, the animals rest up at the ...

There were three options: Use human labor to hike in lumber to repair a bridge along the Gore Range Trail, use mules to hike it in, or don't repair the bridge at all. Thankfully (for the trail teams) ...