by Web Editor | May 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
It appears that bark beetles are attacking more than just the trees. Research conducted outside Steamboat Springs has found that the beetles that have decimated pine and spruce forests throughout the western United States have also inadvertently contributed to the air...
by Web Editor | May 25, 2012 | News, News/PR
A day’s worth of logging took place in less than a second on a hillside above Hahn Creek. “This is the most enjoyable part of the job,” Helena National Forest lead blaster Don Senn said as he inspected the parallel lines of toppled trees. “The day goes quickly when...
by Web Editor | May 23, 2012 | News, News/PR
As pine beetles continue to ravage the West and the construction market continues to stall, entrepreneurs and environmentalists struggle to give new life to dead wood. The sky was the limit in 2007. Home prices were skyrocketing. Little more than a signature harvested...
by Web Editor | May 21, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service recently selected its contractor, Pioneer Forest Products, for the largest stewardship contract in the agency’s history. The contract will result in 300,000 acres of restoration-based thinning in Arizona over 10 years, improving forest health,...
by Web Editor | May 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
Today’s mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S. are truly unusual and exceptional in the long-term record, suggests a new study that examined hundreds of years of ancient tree ring and fire data from two distinct climate periods. Researchers constructed and...
by Web Editor | May 16, 2012 | News, News/PR
Paul Bunyan wouldn’t have known what to make of Gordon Ash’s little logging crew in the Pioneer Mountains last week. Instead of axes or saws, the U.S. Forest Service team went after trees with sticks of high explosive. “You’d calculate the proper amount of explosive,...
