by Web Editor | Mar 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is providing close to one million dollars in state funding to Forest Service projects in Montana, to increase the pace and scale of efforts to improve forest health and watershed health. State investments...
by Web Editor | Mar 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
Mountain pine beetles have left vast tracts of dead, dry trees in the West, raising fears that they’re more vulnerable to wildfire outbreaks, but a new study found no evidence that beetle-infested forests are more likely to burn than healthy ones. In a paper...
by Web Editor | Mar 25, 2015 | News, News/PR
Wildfire season is quickly approaching, and Southern Arizona fire departments spent the day brushing up on their skills. Firefighters from several local agencies, including the Northwest Fire District, Casa Grande Fire Department, Golder Ranch Fire District, and...
by Web Editor | Mar 23, 2015 | News, News/PR
Mike Janicki has spent 40 years as a logger, and his work brings him to the unstable hillsides around this upper Skagit Valley town. During past decades, there have been large and small slides here, some on cut land and some on forested land. Those slides have damaged...
by Web Editor | Mar 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
A century-long study in the Oregon Cascades may cause scientists to revise the textbook on how forests grow and die, accumulate biomass and store carbon. In a new analysis of forest succession in three Douglas-fir stands in the Willamette National Forest, two Oregon...
by Web Editor | Mar 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
Harvesting fire-killed trees is an effective way to reduce woody fuels for up to four decades following wildfire in dry coniferous forests, a U.S. Forest Service study has found. The retrospective analysis, among the first to measure the long-term effects of post-fire...
