by Web Editor | 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...
by Web Editor | 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...
by Web Editor | Oct 1, 2012 | News, News/PR
Nine owners and managers for four Black Hills logging companies and a general store have been indicted by a federal grand jury for immigration violations and fraud in connection with U.S. Forest Service contracts. A federal grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday...
by Web Editor | Sep 28, 2012 | News, News/PR
Western land managers received warnings from the FBI that terrorist groups might seize on dry conditions and stands of beetle-killed trees to ignite forest fires, which would cost millions to fight and create widespread chaos, Utah’s forester said last week. “We...
by Web Editor | Sep 26, 2012 | News, News/PR
According to a report released Sept. 10 by the United States Forest Service, the number of dead trees on 750 million acres of public and private forests across America is on the decline for the second straight year. The report, Major Forest Insect and Disease...
by Web Editor | Sep 24, 2012 | News, News/PR
It’s been a bad summer for wildfires, and even with autumn’s cooler temperatures approaching, the fires still burn. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured images of several large fires burning in the Northwest on Sept. 17. Smoke can be seen billowing from...
