by Web Editor | Dec 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
At the Governor’s Forestry Economic Summit Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker announced a new timber harvesting initiative in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest – an effort he said that would help revitalize the state’s timber industry and help maintain/create hundreds...
by Web Editor | Dec 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
Close to 300,000 trees, mostly junipers and oaks, would likely be cleared on public land in the Santa Rita Mountains if the proposed Rosemont Mine is built. Clearing those trees will be controversial, but at this moment, it’s not known what will happen to them...
by Web Editor | Dec 9, 2013 | News, News/PR
Deep in the woods, the whine of chain saws pierced the fall air, and Steve Garcia shouted a warning to fellow loggers as a 40-foot pitch pine crashed to the ground. He was chopping down trees to save the forest as part of New Jersey’s effort to beat back an invasion...
by Web Editor | Dec 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Washington timber industry and environmental groups will make a stab at collaboration to boost both logging and habitat restoration in the Olympic National Forest. Olympic National Forest was ground zero for some of the hottest conflicts of the timber wars of the...
by Web Editor | Dec 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing citations and penalties against the Arizona State Forestry Division in 19 wildland firefighter deaths on June 30 of this year. The Industrial Commission of Arizona is scheduled to...
by Web Editor | Nov 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a forest bill that sets the stage for sweeping changes in the management of 2.1 million acres of federal forest in Western Oregon. The bill attempts to resolve decades of lawsuits over the Bureau of Land Management’s so-called...
