by Web Editor | Apr 23, 2012 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced a cooperative partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Canada’s Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food that will promote agroforestry to help landowners improve water quality, control soil...
by Web Editor | Apr 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
Anti-regulation forces are working to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from enforcing violations of the Lacey Act, the first-ever law prohibiting the trade of products made with illegally logged wood, and pushing members of Congress to overturn the law. If...
by Web Editor | Apr 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado are calling it the conundrum on Conundrum Creek: how to remove six cows that wandered into a wilderness cabin high in the Rocky Mountains and froze to death, stiff as boards, when they couldn’t get out. For officials, here’s...
by Web Editor | Apr 16, 2012 | News, News/PR
The West’s 2012 wildfire season exploded in earnest last month with a wind-whipped blaze that killed three people in rugged alpine canyon country near Denver. It took a 700-strong federal firefighting team a week of labor, day and night, to tame the blaze, and...
by Web Editor | Apr 13, 2012 | News, News/PR
The Forest Service recently unveiled a product that helps natural resource managers rapidly detect, identify and respond to unexpected changes in the nation’s forests by using web-based tools. The satellite-based monitoring and assessment tool, aptly called ForWarn,...
by Web Editor | Apr 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
State forestry agencies in the South are bracing for the potential arrival of the emerald ash borer. Agencies, like the Georgia Forestry Commission, are putting out traps to capture the beetles that attack ash trees. The beetles have been found as far south as...
