Kristin Bail will oversee nine national forests and one national grassland throughout Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota.

Kristin Bail is being named acting regional forester for the Northern Region on March 31.Bail will temporarily succeed ...

"The aurora does not need to be directly overhead but can be observed from as much as a 1,000 km [621 miles] away when the aurora is bright and if conditions are right," the agency explains on its ...