by Web Editor | Jul 10, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s timber harvest reached 3.75 billion board feet in 2012, continuing a recovery from the crash of the housing market and the depths of the recession. In 2009, loggers cut 2.75 billion board feet, but the harvest has increased each year since. The...
by Web Editor | Jul 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
If you doubt that climate change is transforming the American landscape, go to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sweltering temperatures there have broken records this summer, and a seemingly permanent orange haze of smoke hangs in the air from multiple wildfires. Take a ride...
by Web Editor | Jul 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
Gusty, hot winds blew an Arizona wildfire out of control Sunday in a forest northwest of Phoenix, overtaking and killing 19 members of an elite fire crew in the deadliest wildfire involving firefighters in the U.S. for at least 30 years. The “hotshot” firefighters...
by Web Editor | Jun 28, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Entomological Society of America is hosting its North Central Branch’s annual meeting in Rapid City this week. On Sunday, scientists from all around the world gathered to hear a presentation on the mountain pine beetle. South Dakota’s forests continue...
by Web Editor | Jun 26, 2013 | News, News/PR
Controversial legislation sponsored by Senators Bob Smith and Donald Norcross that would establish a forestry stewardship program for New Jersey state-owned lands and open the way for commercial logging efforts was approved Monday by the General Assembly and now heads...
by Web Editor | Jun 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
As the rural forestry coordinator for the Kansas Forest Service, Bob Atchison has a broad perspective toward the state’s 5.2 million acres of forest land. “Healthy forests, woodlands and windbreaks are as important to our national infrastructure as roads and bridges,”...