by Web Editor | Jul 13, 2012 | News, News/PR
The World Resources Institute (WRI) recently announced the launch of the Forest Legality Risk Information Tool, an open-access global information website designed to assist purchasers of forest products in securing fiber from legal sources. The risk tool, a project of...
by Web Editor | Jul 11, 2012 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s annual timber harvest jumped 13% in 2011, reaching 3.65 billion board feet. Large private forest owners, taking advantage of a continued hot export market to China and elsewhere, accounted for two-thirds of the harvest despite having only 19% of the...
by Web Editor | Jul 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
NASA and the U.S. Forest Service signed a Space Act Agreement recently that unites the two agencies in raising awareness about the importance of fire prevention and fire safety. This partnership will highlight areas of common interest in wildfires, forest and plant...
by Web Editor | Jul 6, 2012 | News, News/PR
U.S. Forest Service and Canadian Forest Service of Natural Resources Canada officials convened last week for the first forest health summit between the two countries to discuss issues of common concern such as invasive species. “The borders that separate the...
by Web Editor | Jul 2, 2012 | News, News/PR
Firefighters made progress last week in fighting a blaze that has devoured more than 18,000 acres in Colorado, but their sense of accomplishment was tempered by the news that nearly 350 homes in Colorado Springs had been destroyed by the flames. Mayor Steve Bach,...
by Web Editor | Jun 29, 2012 | News, News/PR
When the smoke finally clears and new plant life pokes up from the scorched earth after the wildfires raging in the southern Rockies, what emerges will look radically different than what was there just a few weeks ago. According to Craig Allen, a research ecologist...
