by Web Editor | Jan 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Six former chiefs of the Forest Service have written leaders of the U.S. House and Senate expressing the urgent need to establish a new method of funding wildland firefighting. The Forest Service and Department of Interior, they said, are alone among federal agencies...
by Web Editor | Jan 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
700,000 acres of Montana national forests burned in this summer’s wildfires. The Montana Wood Products Association (MWPA) is planning to salvage about 30,000 of those acres, MWPA’s executive director Julia Altemus told hundreds of people Tuesday. The...
by Web Editor | Jan 12, 2018 | News, News/PR
When Butch Jacobs steps into the woods in search of basket making materials, he does not have a specific type of forest or black ash tree in mind, but he knows it when he sees it. “It’s a unique skill set that cannot necessarily be taught. Some people just...
by Web Editor | Jan 8, 2018 | News, News/PR
Mexican spotted owls apparently love the canyons and pockets of big old trees on the watershed of the C.C. Cragin Reservoir — Payson’s crucial future water supply. The dozens of potential nesting territories for these small, deep-forest-loving owls has complicated and...
by Web Editor | Jan 5, 2018 | News, News/PR
Two Southern California lawmakers said Wednesday that they would introduce several pieces of legislation to improve emergency response, hopefully before the next major wildfire destroys thousands of acres in the fire-prone state. The announcement from state Sen....
by Web Editor | Jan 3, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recently highlighted some of the agency’s accomplishments during 2017 to improve the productivity, uses, and sustainability of national forests and grasslands. “Our accomplishments this year...
