by Web Editor | Aug 13, 2014 | News, News/PR
President Barack Obama on Tuesday issued a disaster declaration and approved federal aid for wildfire-scorched Washington state, as the U.S. West Coast struggles with a near-record fire season that experts say will likely worsen in the coming weeks. The declaration...
by Web Editor | Aug 11, 2014 | News, News/PR
Environmentalists are concerned that forest thinning south of Flagstaff to protect water supplies would harm three breeding pairs of Mexican spotted owls that live there. The Arizona Daily Sun reports that Mormon Mountain is being considered for restorative thinning....
by Web Editor | Aug 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Forest Service will award more than $14 million in funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to seven Forest Legacy Program projects aimed at protecting over 28,000 acres of working...
by Web Editor | Aug 6, 2014 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to scale back some projects designed to help prevent wildfires so that it can meet the expenses of fighting this summer’s round of fires. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday that about $400 million to $500...
by Web Editor | Aug 4, 2014 | News, News/PR
More than 441,000 trees infested with the mountain pine beetle have been cut down since South Dakota launched its Black Hills Forest Initiative three years ago this month. “I am very pleased with the progress we’ve made in treating mountain pine beetle...
by Web Editor | Aug 1, 2014 | News, News/PR
Make-A-Wish Vermont granted the wish of 6-year-old Keegan Brooks by taking him out for a day with Plum Creek Timber loggers in Essex County. Brooks suffers from muscular dystrophy, which severely reduces an individual’s life expectancy. During the referral...
