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...
by Web Editor | Nov 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service delayed its response to two environmental groups objecting to a logging plan in a Montana watershed that supplies the bulk of drinking water to 30,000 Helena residents. The Independent Record reported that Deputy Regional Forester Jane Cottrell...
by Web Editor | Nov 22, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Department of Forestry officials will report to a legislative committee on Thursday about the costs of the wildfire season, asking for money to balance the books. This happens every year, but this time the numbers are historic. “This was the most costly...
