by Web Editor | Mar 23, 2018 | News, News/PR
The $1.3 trillion spending bill headed for a vote in Congress this week includes a bipartisan measure creating a disaster fund to help fight the wildfires that have swept Western states in recent years. Fundamentally changing how the U.S. Forest Service and other...
by Web Editor | Mar 21, 2018 | News, News/PR
An abandoned hardwood lumber mill in Washington will reopen after receiving a large investment. Washington’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and state legislature will invest $1.5 million to get the Raymond, Wash. mill, owned by the Port of Willapa Harbor,...
by Web Editor | Mar 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
Matt Dallman guided his four-wheel drive truck up a narrow, snow-covered road in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Forest County. Dallman, the director of conservation for the Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin, pointed to a cluster or stand of red pines, which...
by Web Editor | Mar 14, 2018 | News, News/PR
President Donald Trump’s administration moved quickly last week to install a female wildland firefighter to lead the U.S. Forest Service after the agency’s former chief stepped down amid sexual misconduct allegations. The appointment of Vickie Christiansen as interim...
by Web Editor | Mar 12, 2018 | News, News/PR
Because snow-covered and frozen ground may reduce the potential negative consequences caused by soil compaction and rutting, warmer winters could shorten the window on logging activities. Logging when the ground is frozen or snow-covered allows for minimal soil...
by Web Editor | Mar 5, 2018 | News, News/PR
A commercial logging bill left “in limbo” has been declared dead for the session. Senate Bill 270, which would have allowed commercial logging in state parks to pay for park maintenance, was left in the Senate’s Natural Resources Committee about three weeks ago, when...
