by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2013 | News, News/PR
Firefighters say the wildfire burning in the rugged San Jacinto mountain range in Southern California some 90 miles east of Los Angeles, known as the Silver Fire, is one of the fastest moving they’ve seen in 50 years. It started Wednesday and spread to 25 square...
by Web Editor | Aug 7, 2013 | News, News/PR
The terrain at one Oregon wildfire is so forbidding and the vegetation so dry that veteran firefighters expect it to grow more than fivefold and burn until autumn — unless there’s rain in the meantime. The area of the Big Windy fire centered 25 miles northwest...
by Web Editor | Aug 5, 2013 | News, News/PR
While a debate about hydraulic fracturing in Ohio state forests recently has been in the news, attendees at an Ohio Department of Natural Resources regional open house in Chillicothe on Wednesday wanted to talk primarily about logging activity in the forests. The open...
by Web Editor | Aug 2, 2013 | News, News/PR
With the five largest fires burning in Douglas and Josephine counties having grown to more than 35,000 acres, southwest Oregon now has the dubious distinction of being the nation’s wildfire hot spot. More than 3,500 firefighters from throughout Oregon and around...
by Web Editor | Jul 26, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has postponed three Oregon timber sales, saying that it needs time to consider a federal court decision that ordered it to sell more timber in Southern Oregon. However, a timber industry group has filed an emergency motion asking the...
by Web Editor | Jul 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
Amid fresh furor, the U.S. Forest Service is considering letting a troubled timber company transfer the biggest forest restoration project in history. The Forest Service announced on Monday that it has received a request from Pioneer Forest Products to transfer the...
