by Web Editor | Oct 29, 2014 | News, News/PR
Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. announced today it has reached an agreement to sell approximately 165,000 acres of Montana and Washington forestland to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for $134 million. The sale is part of an effort to unite the checkerboard land...
by Web Editor | Oct 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Seniors studying forestry and environmental conservation and students from the gas and diesel class at Jefferson-Lewis BOCES Howard G. Sackett Technical Center got the chance to experience sitting in the driver’s seat of cutting-edge logging equipment — all through...
by Web Editor | Oct 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
A female beetle decoy may soon rid the United States of the destructive emerald ash borer. An international team of researchers has developed a decoy female ash borer that attracts, then electrocutes the male beetles as they land on it to mate. The results of the...
by Web Editor | Oct 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
Forests in the Northwoods and Upper Peninsula may look different in the next century thanks to a warming climate. A new report from the U.S. Forest Service predicts fewer of some types of conifers and more hardwoods in northern forests. A new analysis of climate data...
by Web Editor | Oct 1, 2014 | News, News/PR
This is an interesting time in the Wisconsin logging business, one of the state’s signature industries. Sawmills are looking for logs and the logging industry is looking for loggers. “It’s a smidge more complicated than that but, yes, you could say there...
by Web Editor | Sep 29, 2014 | News, News/PR
A new report released by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy shows that many Sierra Nevada forests are in critical condition and that natural benefits that these forests provide, such as clean air and water, are at risk from large, intense fire. Sierra watersheds are the...
