Pine Beetle Fight Lasts All Year

by | Nov 2, 2012 | News, News/PR

Forest companies have spent tremendous resources redirecting their operations in order to limit the spread of mountain pine beetles. Their efforts are paying off, but there will be no rest during the winter. Weyerhaeuser and Canfor direct their clearcutting towards...

U.S. Runs Out Of Funds To Battle Wildfires

by | Oct 10, 2012 | News, News/PR

In the worst wildfire season on record, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service ran out of money to pay for firefighters, fire trucks and aircraft that dump retardant on monstrous flames. So officials did about the only thing they could: take money from...

Coming Drought May Ruin Southwestern Forests

by | Oct 8, 2012 | News, News/PR

The Southwest is headed for a mega-drought in our lifetime, the likes of which haven’t been experienced in more than four centuries, according to a recently published study by a coalition of scientists. The likely result will be a mass die-off and redistribution of...

Ohio Timber Sales Fund School, County Programs

by | Oct 3, 2012 | News, News/PR

Franklin Local School district is set to receive an extra boost of $20,000 to help continue programming. The district will receive $21,139 from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry’s Trees to Textbooks program. “This money goes...