Vizzachero, 30, had worked as a wildlife biologist for the Los Padres National Forest for about a year. He was one of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees fired last weekend at the direction ...

Rep. Jimmy Panetta, right, invited former U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist Ben Vizzachero to President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on March 4, 2025. The biologist described the ...

The Trump Administration has cut two thousand workers, making it harder for the service to fight wildfires and repair storm ...

Jimmy Stiles knows Conecuh National Forest. He lives in it. Stiles, a field biologist, has lived in his home in the northern ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...

“Who are you?” Musk asked. Vizzachero answered that he was a wildlife biologist fired from the Los Padres National Forest. “He had this smug grin on his face, and the red crowd sort of ...

Biologist Jill Johnstone, featured in the documentary What Trees Talk About, studies these interconnections, and how disturbance can alter the function of the forest, “It makes a lot of sense to ...

I'm a hard-working biologist and I do what I do for this country out of love.'" Vizzachero, trained on how to encounter mountain lions while on the job in the local forest, found himself face-to ...