by Web Editor | Jan 31, 2018 | News, News/PR
From: Timber Harvesting Editors An Oregon district judge has refused to dismiss a 2016 lawsuit filed by counties with state forests within their borders that claimed state officials have refused to maximize timber revenues from lands that counties donated to the state...
by Web Editor | Jan 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
The mountain pine beetle is native to Montana. It usually does not cause too much trouble, but an unseasonably warm winter 10 years ago allowed the beetle population to explode, which caused an epidemic never before seen in the area. “Sixty percent of that land...
by Web Editor | Jan 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Six former chiefs of the Forest Service have written leaders of the U.S. House and Senate expressing the urgent need to establish a new method of funding wildland firefighting. The Forest Service and Department of Interior, they said, are alone among federal agencies...
by Web Editor | Jan 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
700,000 acres of Montana national forests burned in this summer’s wildfires. The Montana Wood Products Association (MWPA) is planning to salvage about 30,000 of those acres, MWPA’s executive director Julia Altemus told hundreds of people Tuesday. The...
by Web Editor | Jan 12, 2018 | News, News/PR
When Butch Jacobs steps into the woods in search of basket making materials, he does not have a specific type of forest or black ash tree in mind, but he knows it when he sees it. “It’s a unique skill set that cannot necessarily be taught. Some people just...
by Web Editor | Jan 8, 2018 | News, News/PR
Mexican spotted owls apparently love the canyons and pockets of big old trees on the watershed of the C.C. Cragin Reservoir — Payson’s crucial future water supply. The dozens of potential nesting territories for these small, deep-forest-loving owls has complicated and...
