by Web Editor | May 29, 2013 | News, News/PR
Almost one year ago, the Forest Service announced the contractor for the first stewardship contract awarded under the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) in Arizona. The Forest Service anticipates that work issued under the Ranch Task Order will begin in early...
by Web Editor | May 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
Eighteen Western Oregon counties will soon receive $2 million in federal timber payments that had been held up under the sequester law aimed at cutting federal spending, officials learned Thursday. Douglas County Commissioner Doug Robertson, who chairs the Association...
by Web Editor | May 20, 2013 | News, News/PR
Prosecutors announced Thursday they won’t file charges against loggers whose equipment apparently started a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin, concluding there was no criminal intent or negligence. The fire began Tuesday afternoon in the woods near...
by Web Editor | May 17, 2013 | News, News/PR
Loggers from Wallowa County, Oregon are poised for a major role in expanded timber-cutting operations urgently planned for the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the approximately 19-mile area encircling the site of the former Soviet Union’s disastrous nuclear power plant...
by Web Editor | May 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
Two small but unseasonably early wildfires burning in northern California’s wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire season across the West. Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in...
by Web Editor | May 10, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service announced Monday that it has selected contractors to provide seven air tankers that fly faster and drop a larger volume of fire retardant than other planes in its firefighting fleet. The agency will spend nearly $160 million over five years for...
