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,”...
by Web Editor | Jun 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
A Senate committee on Tuesday endorsed legislation to extend federal subsidies for Oregon timber counties one more year, and to protect more wilderness and wild rivers. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the two bills are part of his effort to solve the funding crisis for...
by Web Editor | Jun 19, 2013 | News, News/PR
Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado’s most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes Monday near Yosemite National Park. Investigators believed Colorado’s Black Forest...
by Web Editor | Jun 17, 2013 | News, News/PR
At least two people have been killed so far in the Black Forest fire, El Paso County, Colorado Sheriff Terry Maketa said Thursday. They were the first confirmed fatalities in the fire, which began Tuesday and pushed toward densely populated subdivisions of Colorado...
