by Web Editor | Aug 21, 2017 | News, News/PR
CAL FIRE recently announced a $4,072,000 California Climate Investment grant award to Pacific Forest Trust for its multi-partner forest health and conservation project that is designed to reduce the likelihood and intensity of fire spreading across the Black Butte and...
by Web Editor | Aug 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
For the next four and a half months, the sounds of feller-bunchers, processors and log trucks will be a common one around the lower Dry Lake Hills and the base of Mount Elden. This week, loggers are getting into full swing on the thinning of 642 acres of forest north...
by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2017 | News, News/PR
In 1995, the U.S. Forest Service spent 16 percent of its total budget on fighting fires. Today, it’s 52 percent and growing. What’s changed? “Everything,” said Matthew Thompson, a research forester who works at the agency’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort...
by Web Editor | Aug 11, 2017 | News, News/PR
As the number of droughts increases globally, scientists are working to develop predictions of how future parched conditions will affect plants, especially trees. New results published today in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution by 62 scientists, led by Henry...
by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2017 | News, News/PR
From: Timber Harvesting Editors In a move designed to raise the bar on professionalism and build a standalone marketing brand, leaders of the American Loggers Council (ALC) in late July voted to invest in the reinvigoration of its Master Logger Certification (MLC)...
by Web Editor | Aug 7, 2017 | News, News/PR
The harder we struggle against wildfires, the deeper we sink, like we’re in quicksand, says Mark Finney, research forester for the U.S Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. “It’s called the fire paradox,” says Finney, a fire behavior expert based at the...
