by Web Editor | Aug 30, 2017 | News, News/PR
On a steep slope just inland from Waldport, Oregon, a young forestry worker named Jared Foster is at the controls of a large machine called a forwarder. The machine, made by Finnish company Ponnse, looks like it was designed by Michael Bay. The front section contains...
by Web Editor | Aug 23, 2017 | News, News/PR
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Tony Tooke will serve as the new chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Tooke has worked for the Forest Service since he was 18 and currently is the regional forester for the Southern Region. Tooke is replacing Tom...
by Web Editor | Aug 21, 2017 | News, News/PR
CAL FIRE recently announced a $4,072,000 California Climate Investment grant award to Pacific Forest Trust for its multi-partner forest health and conservation project that is designed to reduce the likelihood and intensity of fire spreading across the Black Butte and...
by Web Editor | Aug 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
For the next four and a half months, the sounds of feller-bunchers, processors and log trucks will be a common one around the lower Dry Lake Hills and the base of Mount Elden. This week, loggers are getting into full swing on the thinning of 642 acres of forest north...
by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2017 | News, News/PR
In 1995, the U.S. Forest Service spent 16 percent of its total budget on fighting fires. Today, it’s 52 percent and growing. What’s changed? “Everything,” said Matthew Thompson, a research forester who works at the agency’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort...
by Web Editor | Aug 11, 2017 | News, News/PR
As the number of droughts increases globally, scientists are working to develop predictions of how future parched conditions will affect plants, especially trees. New results published today in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution by 62 scientists, led by Henry...
