Kirk Sigler
speaker
510 appearances
72 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 9 Sep
Kirk Sigler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Forest Service says it's fully staffed with seasonal wildland firefighters, but sources inside the agency say that's not the full picture.
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For one, they say many fire management veterans were let go in the last year, and their positions are now being filled by people who are not fully qualified.
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Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
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There are now more than three dozen major fires burning mostly in the West, which is baking in a heat wave.
All of this comes as the U.S.
Forest Service, the country's lead firefighting agency, has lost close to 6,000 employees since last year.
Timothy Inglesby is a retired Forest Service firefighter in Oregon.
Call it a paradox in which when wildfire activity is surging, the federal wildland fire workforce is shrinking.
Forest Service says it's fully staffed with seasonal wildland firefighters, but sources inside the agency say that's not the full picture.
For one, they say many fire management veterans were let go in the last year, and their positions are now being filled by people who are not fully qualified.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
Farmers are watching the tentative peace deal with Iran closely.
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The conflict and the straining of global shipping of diesel and fertilizer has been just the latest economic shock for the heartland.
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Most of the fertilizer farmers like Dave Walton are using right now was bought by local co-ops before the Strait of Hormuz reopened.
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Walton grows soybeans in Iowa.
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Walton is also now trying to figure out whether he should start buying fertilizer he'll need for the fall now with the prices finally going down.
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Kirk Sigler, NPR News.
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