by Web Editor | Dec 29, 2015 | News
The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine is deeply concerned that the campaign to create a national park in northern Maine has changed course a bit in the last few months and there is now an effort underway to convince President Obama to designate a national...
by Web Editor | Dec 21, 2015 | News, News/PR
The 2015 wildfire season is now the costliest on record, with $1.71 billion spent to fight the blazes, the U.S. Forest Service said Wednesday. The previous record of $1.67 billion, adjusted for inflation, was set in fiscal year 2002, U.S. Department of Agriculture...
by Web Editor | Dec 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
With a couple clicks on his computer, Robert G. Wagner finds the page he’s looking for and cues up a video loop. On a weather map, a huge snowstorm builds, blowing across the St. Lawrence River from Quebec into New Brunswick. Except, it’s not a snowstorm. The weather...
by Web Editor | Dec 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Three new players have joined in the lawsuit between the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the United States Forest Service over the future of the East Reservoir timber sale. Lincoln County and the Kootenai Forest Stakeholders Coalition have officially joined the suit...
by Web Editor | Dec 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
A long time conservation activist is critical of the move to collaboration between the Washington timber industry, Forest Service, and environmental groups. In recent Years, The NorthEast Washington Forestry Coalition has brought together parties that used to be on...
by Web Editor | Dec 7, 2015 | News, News/PR
Over the last few months, we have written extensively about the extreme wildfire season in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and some of the lingering effects that the devastation will have in the near-term. The fires have been in the mainstream news for months, but a...
