by Web Editor | Nov 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service will spend millions to prop up the wood product industry in Colorado and to subsidize more widespread logging projects in the name of forest health, restoration and renewable energy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week announced two...
by Web Editor | Nov 28, 2012 | News, News/PR
Officials with the Bureau of Land Management are preparing an environmental assessment as part of a plan to salvage timber burned last summer in a wildfire in west-central Idaho. BLM officials want to log about 10 million board feet on 940 acres in the John Day...
by Web Editor | Nov 21, 2012 | News, News/PR
The state of Oregon has withdrawn more than 900 acres of planned timber sales in Elliott State Forest, pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed by environmentalists. The Oregon Department of Forestry plans instead to open 465 acres of alternative logging sites that were...
by Web Editor | Nov 19, 2012 | News, News/PR
Crews are battling a major forest fire that’s nearly 1,000 acres. The fire was reported about 2 p.m. Saturday in the Twilight area of Boone County. Charlie Spencer with the West Virginia Division of Forestry tells WSAZ.com a burning coal seam caught leaves on...
by Web Editor | Nov 14, 2012 | News, News/PR
Nothing sums up wildland firefighters’ penchant for safety than do their fire-resistant yellow shirts. So when fire ecologist Lynn Bennett recalled an incident commander on the Mustang Complex fire saying his Hotshot crews felt so secure taking a stand along Hughes...
by Web Editor | Nov 12, 2012 | News, News/PR
Bark beetles driven by drought may be leaving millions of dead trees behind, but they may also leave behind more diverse, complex and healthy forests than Northern Colorado has seen in more than a century. A U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station study...
