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...
by Web Editor | Jun 27, 2012 | News, News/PR
It’s been 20 months since two tornadoes touched down in northern Arizona, but the damage still is being cleaned up. Loggers are salvaging some 4,200 acres of trees where the tornadoes hit on Oct. 6, 2010. Some trees were uprooted, others broken off 30 feet above the...
by Web Editor | Jun 25, 2012 | News, News/PR
A rapidly expanding wildfire in Colorado forced the evacuation of more than 11,000 people in communities near Pikes Peak on Sunday, as crews struggled to contain several large blazes around the state amid 100-degree temperatures and strong winds. The fast-moving Waldo...
by Web Editor | Jun 22, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service and Apache County, Ariz., have launched a first-of-its-kind management plan to thin more than 90,000 acres of forest in hopes of preventing catastrophic fires like last year’s record Wallow Fire. The partnership grew out of county accusations...
by Web Editor | Jun 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
As crews continue to face off against a fast-moving wildfire in northern Colorado, some in the timber industry say the area’s fire danger has been heightened by U.S. Forest Service policies and an economy that discourages them from harvesting millions of acres of dead...
by Web Editor | Jun 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
In Oregon, huge swaths of the Willamette National Forest, perhaps as much as 12,000 acres, has stands of trees less than 40 years old that have never been thinned. The firs are crowded together, making it hard for sunlight to reach them. Competition for resources has...
