by Web Editor | Mar 12, 2012 | News, News/PR
Obama administration officials are emphasizing restoration of degraded ecosystems as they roll out a final new rule for managing the nation’s 193 million acres of forests and grasslands. Thirty years in the making, the rule to be officially issued this month...
by Web Editor | Mar 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced a new report, Increasing the Pace of Restoration and Job Creation on our National Forests, which outlines a strategy and series of actions for management on 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands...
by Web Editor | Mar 5, 2012 | News, News/PR
A new study of southeastern forests in the U.S. finds that in the long run, burning wood instead of fossil fuels to make electricity can reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but not soon enough to prevent worsening the conditions leading to global...
by Web Editor | Feb 29, 2012 | News, News/PR
In testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell prioritized the proposed FY 2013 Forest Service budget request in three themes: restoration, communities, and...
by Web Editor | Feb 24, 2012 | News, News/PR
An estimated 5.6 million trees that once shaded homes, streets and parks in communities across Texas now are dead as a result of last year’s unrelenting drought. The finding comes from a study conducted by Texas Forest Service urban foresters, who spent the last month...
by Web Editor | Feb 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
New Mexico passed Senate Bill 1 in 2001 to allow counties to manage national forest lands under certain circumstances that U.S. Forest Service personnel couldn’t handle, and now that Otero County passed a resolution in 2011 to do just that, the Forest Service...
