by Web Editor | Mar 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
Harvesting fire-killed trees is an effective way to reduce woody fuels for up to four decades following wildfire in dry coniferous forests, a U.S. Forest Service study has found. The retrospective analysis, among the first to measure the long-term effects of post-fire...
by Web Editor | Mar 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
A District Judge has dismissed a lawsuit conservation groups filed against the Flathead National Forest over logging projects in the South Fork Flathead River corridor. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen sided with a Magistrate Judge who ruled in favor of the U.S....
by Web Editor | Mar 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service recognizes that it must significantly increase forest restoration work to alleviate threats from wildfire and to improve forest and watershed health, Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said. Tidwell spoke at the regional conference of district...
by Web Editor | Mar 6, 2015 | News, News/PR
Record low snowpack amid a second straight drought year has wildland managers bracing for what they consider an upcoming wildfire season in which catastrophic wildfires in the Cascades or Siskiyous “seems inevitable.” State and federal wildfire experts...
by Web Editor | Mar 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
Wrapped in layers of warm clothing, Four Corners Elementary School students made the trek along the school’s Burstrom Trail on Tuesday to see a landscape changed by logging. About 19 acres of forestland around the school is being logged for aspen, also known as poplar...
by Web Editor | Mar 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving $37 million dollars to South Dakota so a number of forest districts in the country can be thinned, including one district in the Black Hills. Sixty-five hundred acres in the Hell Canyon Ranger District of the Black Hills...
