U.S. Forest Service Hiring 1,100 Permanent Wildland Firefighting and Support Roles
Press release from the US Forest Service:
The Forest Service is hiring up to 1,100 permanent wildland firefighter and support employees across the nation’s national forests and grasslands. Applications are accepted through USAJOBS, April 14–24, 2025.
Positions include aviation officers, dispatchers, equipment operators, fire engine operators, fire management officers, fire planners, fire prevention specialists, forestry aids and technicians, handcrew members, helitack crew members, Hotshot crew members, pilots, prescribed fire and fuels specialists, smokejumpers and more.
Pay plans include Wage Grade, Wage Leader, and General Schedule levels 3–13. The new GS 0456 Wildland Fire Management series will be used to fill several positions, with pay based on the 2025 Wildland Firefighters (GW) Locality Pay Tables. For a full list of positions, visit USAJOBS. Position salary, location, and start date will vary.
Applications will be accepted from any U.S. citizen or national who is at least 18 years of age. Direct Hire Authority will be used to fill the available wildland firefighter positions and veterans’ preference does not apply to these vacancies.
For a complete list of vacancies on the Six Rivers National Forest visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/srnf/about-forest/jobs
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How is this possible with all of the draconian cuts to essential programs and the current attack on democracy? It’s almost like some of those things aren’t really happening.
Well, the USFS is in the process of eliminating 7000 permanent, full-time positions. This, and all the money they’re raking in from consumers paying tariffs, means the feds have money to burn.
Anyone would have to be desperate or foolish, to start working for the feds right now.
Believe it or not two things can be true at the same time. They could be firing 7000 bureaucrats that do nothing but write regulations and push paper while simultaneously hiring 1100 actual firefighters that will be out doing something..
That’s because those things aren’t happening. Our biased and corrupt legacy news media is the propaganda arm of the democrat party. 93% of what they spew about Trump are lies and misinformation. Honest journalism mostly is dead in our country. Now you get opinionated reports substantiated by non-existent government officials and political hacks.
I hope that the other 10 months out of the year that they’re not fighting forest fires that they are out in the forest EVERY DAY doing something worthwhile making the forest more resilient to catastrophic wildfire, brushing roads and trails, fixing roads etc.
I get why fire planners are being hired (controlled burns), but it still reads incongruous.