by Web Editor | Sep 23, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Colville National Forest has awarded a 10-year stewardship contract to a Northeast Washington sawmill owner, allowing logging in return for restoration work. Vaagen Brothers Lumber Co. was the sole bidder on the contract, which is valued at up to $30 million. The...
by Web Editor | Sep 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service is rebooting its largest-ever forest restoration project, handing the contract for thinning northern Arizona pines to a new company after the original contractor failed to finance a mill or ramp up cutting in its first 16 months on the job....
by Web Editor | Sep 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
The federal government will deduct more than $860,000 from its timber payments to Arizona this year, some of the more than $15 million the U.S. Forest Service said it will withhold from 22 states. A Forest Service letter to governors last week said the deductions are...
by Web Editor | Sep 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Most of the forest burned in the Lolo Creek Complex fire belonged to Plum Creek Timber Co., which hopes to recover what it can of the blackened trees this fall. “Of the almost 11,000 acres involved, we have just over 7,000 acres within the boundary of that fire,” Plum...
by Web Editor | Sep 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack largely defended the federal government’s management of national forests amid criticisms that massive buildups of hazardous fuels have added to wildfires’ intensity. Vilsack said there’s “no question there’s...
by Web Editor | Aug 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
As of Friday morning, authorities said, the Rim Fire has burned 201,894 acres and is 32 percent contained. Cost of fighting the fire has reached $46.8 million. It’s the fifth largest fire in state history. No. 1, the Cedar Fire burned 273,246 acres in Southern...
