by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Hundreds of thousands of trees died in the historic drought of 2012, and many more will succumb in the next few years, scientists say. “This is just beginning,” says Janna Beckerman, a plant pathologist at Indiana’s Purdue University. “I...
by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Boy Scouts of America are recruiting volunteers to help reforest a popular campground that was devastated by wildfire over Labor Day weekend in 2011. Nearly half of the 5,000-acre Griffith League Scout Ranch was destroyed by the Bastrop County Complex, a monstrous...
by Web Editor | Jan 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has abandoned a proposal to merge the Bridger-Teton and Caribou-Targhee national forests. A report prepared for acting Regional Forester Marlene Finley found that a joint forest wouldn’t save enough money and would compromise management and the...
by Web Editor | Jan 23, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service says it has successfully answered a federal judge’s legal questions involving a 2,038-acre proposed logging project in the Lolo National Forest about 10 miles north of Seeley Lake. Lolo National Forest Supervisor Debbie Austin last week wrote...
by Web Editor | Jan 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
A 330-year-old Douglas fir was among 102 trees that a Brinnon, WA, man pleaded guilty to stealing or damaging from the Olympic National Forest and was sentenced to one year in jail. According to the U.S. Department of Forestry, Reid Johnston, 41, has been convicted of...
by Web Editor | Jan 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
Evidence is increasing from multiple scientific fields that exposure to the natural environment can improve human health. In a new study by the U.S. Forest Service, the presence of trees was associated with human health. For Geoffrey Donovan, a research forester at...
