by Web Editor | Sep 12, 2012 | News, News/PR
A pine beetle outbreak that has left many Western states with vast stands of dead and dying trees has eased for the second consecutive year, the U.S. Forest Service said Monday. With fewer trees left for the beetles to eat, officials said a 2011 aerial survey recorded...
by Web Editor | Sep 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
Dogs learning to sniff out emerald ash borers and ash wood are about to wrap up their Minnesota training, but they won’t immediately be put to work for lack of funding. “The training has gone better than we expected,” said Liz Erickson, Minnesota...
by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2012 | News, News/PR
A new management plan for the Giant Sequoia National Monument places greater limits on timber cutting in and near groves of the world’s largest trees, but would still allow logging in nearly a quarter of the monument. The plan, released Tuesday by the U.S....
by Web Editor | Sep 5, 2012 | News, News/PR
The Forest Service is taking a team approach to restoring a fire lookout on a peak overlooking the Clark Fork River. Although many helping hands are involved, the heavy lifting was done recently by a team of mules in a prestigious pack string based out of the Ninemile...
by Web Editor | Aug 31, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service said recently that the shale drilling technique for natural gas known as hydraulic fracturing can take place in a national forest in southeast Ohio. The Forest Service released its report after a study of the Wayne National Forest’s land and...
by Web Editor | Aug 29, 2012 | News, News/PR
Data recently released by the Oregon Department of Forestry shows that timber harvest levels statewide have increased for the second year in a row. Harvests, which were at a low of 2.75 billion board feet in 2009 following the collapse of the domestic housing market...
