by Web Editor | Feb 22, 2013 | News, News/PR
The man in charge of resource management for 20 million acres of national forest land in California believes it’s time the government and timber industry start doing a better job of working together. Speaking Thursday morning at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference,...
by Web Editor | Feb 15, 2013 | News, News/PR
In recent weeks, the Adirondack Park has become involved in a new debate over clearcut logging. But a growing coalition of environmentalists, industry leaders, government officials and academics agree on one thing. More than a million acres of the Park’s...
by Web Editor | Feb 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
Legislation that would move ownership and management of the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management lands in New Mexico has been sent to the House Agriculture and Water Resource Committee for study. House Bill 292 – The New Mexico Transfer of...
by Web Editor | Feb 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
Gov. John Kitzhaber on Thursday gave members of Congress a menu of options for increasing logging on the so-called O&C timberlands in western Oregon to help rural counties shore up cash-strapped budgets and produce logs for local mills. The governor said he hopes...
by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Hundreds of thousands of trees died in the historic drought of 2012, and many more will succumb in the next few years, scientists say. “This is just beginning,” says Janna Beckerman, a plant pathologist at Indiana’s Purdue University. “I...
by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Boy Scouts of America are recruiting volunteers to help reforest a popular campground that was devastated by wildfire over Labor Day weekend in 2011. Nearly half of the 5,000-acre Griffith League Scout Ranch was destroyed by the Bastrop County Complex, a monstrous...
