by Web Editor | Jul 25, 2012 | News, News/PR
Forests in the Pacific Northwest store more carbon than any other region in the United States, but our warming climate may undermine their storage potential. A new study conducted by the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station and the Climate Impacts...
by Web Editor | Jul 23, 2012 | News, News/PR
Apache County’s forest-stewardship agreement with the U.S. Forest Service was held up at a congressional hearing Friday as a model for other governments trying to tame the growing problem of wildfires. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Flagstaff, said programs like Apache County’s...
by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
Dry conditions are dangerous in this season of devastating wildfires. Twenty-one large fires are burning across the West. None are as bad as the recent Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado, which left two people dead and burned 346 homes. Fires this destructive, or so fierce...
by Web Editor | Jul 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
President Barack Obama will make federal health insurance available to about 8,000 temporary wildland firefighters, a White House official said recently. Despite the grueling and dangerous work they do, the 8,000 firefighters aren’t covered by federal health...
by Web Editor | Jul 16, 2012 | News, News/PR
The blistering summer and ongoing drought conditions have the prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to declare a federal disaster area in more than 1,000 counties covering 26 states. That’s almost one-third of all the counties in the United States, making it...
by Web Editor | Jul 13, 2012 | News, News/PR
The World Resources Institute (WRI) recently announced the launch of the Forest Legality Risk Information Tool, an open-access global information website designed to assist purchasers of forest products in securing fiber from legal sources. The risk tool, a project of...
