by Web Editor | Sep 25, 2015 | News, News/PR
Ross Logging was fined $42,000 by OSHA for exposing workers to amputation hazards at an Elkview, West Virginia, worksite. The Occupational Health & Safety Administration issued the latest citations Sept. 9, 2015. OSHA says employees were operating chainsaws...
by Web Editor | Sep 23, 2015 | News, News/PR
Congressman Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (PA-05) and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) today announced the award of $60,260 in grant funding to the Pennsylvania State University, which will be used to educate landowners on the protection of forests for future generations. The funding for...
by Web Editor | Sep 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Baker County Commissioner Bill Harvey says that the federal government needs to get to work on a plan for salvage logging to quickly cut the timber left standing by area wildfires. “What they’ve done in the past is they’ve not logged them and they are allowed to fall...
by Web Editor | Sep 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Four Forest Restoration Initiative, better known as 4FRI, just got a whole lot bigger with the signing of the 4FRI Charter by members of the Natural Resource Working Group. The official signing took place at the NRWG meeting on Aug. 18 at the Navajo County Show...
by Web Editor | Sep 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
As of Tuesday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, more than 8 million acres have burned in U.S. wildfires in 2015. 8,202,557 of them, to be precise. That’s an area larger than the state of Maryland. And the numbers are still growing: 65 large fires are...
by Web Editor | Aug 26, 2015 | News, News/PR
Fire managers from as far as Australia and New Zealand have arrived in the West as massive wildfires raging in Washington state and elsewhere in the region taxed resources and led officials to put out a wide call for help. In Washington, a blaze raging in the...
