by Web Editor | Jun 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Trudging through a densely planted patch of hardwoods in spitting rain, Ronald Mahoney spotted one more. He yanked the chain saw into action, sawed a V-shaped wedge into the trunk and finished it off with a clean cut from the opposite side. The birch, particularly...
by Web Editor | Jun 25, 2014 | News, News/PR
Eric Roussel and colleagues were working down in the Sweetwater Range a few months back when they noticed something unusual. The Nevada Division of Forestry crew, conducting a fuels reduction project in a thick stand of pinyon-juniper, felled trees that normally...
by Web Editor | Jun 23, 2014 | News, News/PR
Two conservation groups made the first legal challenge to a logging operation excluded from environmental analysis and public review under the 2014 Farm Bill. On Thursday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in U.S. District...
by Web Editor | Jun 20, 2014 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has designated national forestlands in Central Oregon and elsewhere that are prone to insect infestation, disease outbreaks and massive wildfires, a move that could speed up projects aimed at improving forest health. “If there is a project that...
by Web Editor | Jun 18, 2014 | News, News/PR
For the first time, California forestry officials intend to give counties and organizations money raised through a contested assessment on property in wildfire-prone areas to be used for wildfire prevention projects. The funds will be awarded as part of a one-time...
by Web Editor | Jun 16, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Legislature is poised to take another crack at allowing commercial logging on more than a million acres of New Jersey’s forests. The issue deeply split the state’s environmental community when it was approved in the previous legislative session, but it ended up...
