by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
A logging proposal just outside Crater Lake National Park has reignited the Northwest’s logging wars in miniature, pitting timber groups anxious for jobs against environmentalists who have gathered 10,000 comments in opposition. The U.S. Forest Service’s...
by Web Editor | Feb 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
As the emerald ash borer ravages North American ash trees, threatening the trees’ very survival, a team of entomologists and engineers may have found a way to prevent the spread of the pests. Emerald ash borers (EABs), a type of beetle native to Asia, first...
by Web Editor | Feb 22, 2013 | News, News/PR
The man in charge of resource management for 20 million acres of national forest land in California believes it’s time the government and timber industry start doing a better job of working together. Speaking Thursday morning at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference,...
by Web Editor | Feb 15, 2013 | News, News/PR
In recent weeks, the Adirondack Park has become involved in a new debate over clearcut logging. But a growing coalition of environmentalists, industry leaders, government officials and academics agree on one thing. More than a million acres of the Park’s...
by Web Editor | Feb 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
Legislation that would move ownership and management of the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management lands in New Mexico has been sent to the House Agriculture and Water Resource Committee for study. House Bill 292 – The New Mexico Transfer of...
by Web Editor | Feb 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
Gov. John Kitzhaber on Thursday gave members of Congress a menu of options for increasing logging on the so-called O&C timberlands in western Oregon to help rural counties shore up cash-strapped budgets and produce logs for local mills. The governor said he hopes...
