by Web Editor | Jul 31, 2015 | News, News/PR
Recently, Maine’s Second District Congressman, Bruce Poliquin, introduced the Securing America’s Next Generation of Safe Loggers and Truckers Act. “Maine is home to the best loggers and truckers in the Country,” said Congressman Bruce Poliquin. “Unfortunately, the...
by Web Editor | Jul 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
A large wildfire fuels-reduction project meant to protect subdivisions near forestland from the Tetons to the Snake River is being pursued once again by the Bridger-Teton National Forest. A U.S. Forest Service document completed this week outlines plans to thin 2,526...
by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
A recent study by U.S. Forest Service and university researchers shows that thinning and prescribed fire can protect stands of southern pines on a landscape level from infestations by southern pine beetle. The results, published online in the Journal of Forestry, also...
by Web Editor | Jul 22, 2015 | News, News/PR
Evidence presented in a recently released study, authored by a team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service, University of Maryland and University of Kentucky, reveals new findings about how wildfires actually spread and could have significant impacts on...
by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Bitterroot National Forest moved forward this week on the last two projects to reduce hazardous fuels in the urban/wildland interface along nearly all of the western edge of the Bitterroot Valley. Forest Service Supervisor Julie King approved the Como Forest...
by Web Editor | Jul 17, 2015 | News, News/PR
More than four billion board feet of Oregon timber was harvested last year. However, the harvest was a 1.74 decrease from 2013, and might decrease again in 2015 due to the problems at the slow ports and fewer-than-expected housing starts at the beginning of the year....
