by Web Editor | May 15, 2015 | News, News/PR
A Rexford-based logger is seeking $2.5 million in damages from the U.S. Forest Service for what a federal court in February deemed the wrongful termination of his logging contract in the Kootenai National Forest. On April 29, a federal appeals court ordered the U.S....
by Web Editor | Apr 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced April 27 that $285 million will go to 41 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico this year in support of local schools and roads as part of the Congressional two-year reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and...
by Web Editor | Apr 24, 2015 | News, News/PR
Six years ago, Congress selected Central Washington as one of 10 places nationwide to test a three-pronged program to restore ecological balance to forests, protect rural economies and reduce wildfires. Now a newly released federal report praises the national...
by Web Editor | Apr 22, 2015 | News, News/PR
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said today that the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI), the largest landscape-scale restoration initiative of its kind, has reached a pivotal milestone towards achieving accelerated forest restoration on more than 500,000...
by Web Editor | Apr 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
Just a few minutes after he and his crew intentionally set a small patch of bone-dry grass and brush ablaze in a Grant Creek neighborhood on Wednesday morning, Robert Dillon marveled at how quickly the fire spread. “It’s burning like it’s July,” he observed. “It’s...
by Web Editor | Apr 17, 2015 | News, News/PR
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the Senate’s move Tuesday night to extend a lifeline to rural Oregon communities with final passage of a two-year renewal of the Secure Rural Schools program. “This extension ends months of uncertainty for Oregon’s rural communities,...
