by Web Editor | Aug 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
State officials say logging companies harvested a record amount of timber on Idaho’s endowment lands in the past year. According to the Idaho Department of Lands, 330 million board feet of timber worth about $50 million was harvested during the fiscal year that...
by Web Editor | Aug 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
An insect that has the potential to kill millions of trees in Nebraska and southwest Iowa has been found north of Kansas City, Mo., bringing into sharp relief an imminent threat to the region’s canopy. Scientists have confirmed that a dead ash tree in a...
by Web Editor | Aug 8, 2012 | News, News/PR
Even before the fires start, some folks in the U.S. Forest Service have planned for what to do when they’re extinguished. In the case of the Pony and Ash Creek fires in eastern Montana, federal Burn Area Emergency Recovery crews have already spent almost $1.7 million...
by Web Editor | Aug 6, 2012 | News, News/PR
Western forests could be facing a 100-year drought, turning to scrubland by the end of the century – and taking their ability to soak up carbon with them, according to a new study. The new research, published in Nature Geoscience July 29, suggests the western...
by Web Editor | Aug 3, 2012 | News, News/PR
Wildfires are fast-moving targets, so one of the most important weapons firefighting teams can have is timely, precise information about where the fire is, where it’s likely to spread and what’s in its path. In the past couple of years, firefighters have...
by Web Editor | Aug 1, 2012 | News, News/PR
ReEnergy Holdings recruited more than a dozen suppliers for its new biomass power plant in Lyons Falls, NY as more than 100 people attended Demo Day July 25 to watch wood chippers and learn about a new program offered to those in the logging industry. By midday, 13...
