by Web Editor | Feb 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
A wildfire destroyed over three-dozen homes and buildings on Saturday in the Eastern Sierra leading to the evacuation of two towns. The wildfire burned over 7,000 acres. According to Cal Fire, the wildfire named the Round Fire was 50% contained as of late Saturday...
by Web Editor | Feb 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
Montana timber counties recently lost lots of federal revenue. Local officials say public services are going to suffer as a result. “It’s very scary. We’re pretty bare bones out here the way it is,” said Mineral County Commissioner Duane...
by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2015 | News, News/PR
Snow blankets the landscape in north central Washington. What you can’t see is the scorched earth left from last summer’s Carlton Complex fire. Even through the snow, Susan Prichard, a fire ecologist for the University of Washington, can see the damage. She can also...
by Web Editor | Feb 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have disapproved the state of Oregon’s coastal nonpoint pollution control program because it does not sufficiently protect salmon streams and landslide-prone...
by Web Editor | Feb 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s timber industry hasn’t exactly been robust. You can see the charts showing a steady decline, read environmentalists’ 2015 plans to increase state authority over the industry or listen to conventional wisdom that says people just don’t...
by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
Environmentalists want to stop an Oregon logging project they claim is a “test case” for clear-cutting trees on the verge of becoming “old growth” stands. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved logging on 187 acres near Myrtle Creek, Ore., as part of the “White...