by Web Editor | Jan 23, 2017 | News, News/PR
Nearly $1 million in federal grants and access to the Department of Energy’s largest research center will help Maine’s $8.5 billion forest products industry determine its future as paper usage declines, the Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced...
by Web Editor | Jan 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
The Michigan departments of Environmental Quality, Natural Resources and Agriculture and Rural Development recently announced that 17 grant projects will share $3,507,907 in funding through the Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program – an initiative launched in 2014...
by Web Editor | Jan 11, 2017 | News, News/PR
The task of saving the forest — and places like Payson — keeps getting more complicated. A series of comprehensive studies suggest large-scale restoration logging can play a key role — but not without a dramatic change in the use of fire. However, without such a...
by Web Editor | Jan 9, 2017 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality drafted a report that identified logging as a contributor to known risks for drinking water quality in communities up and down the Oregon coast. But the report has never been published. It was scrapped by the agency after...
by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2017 | News, News/PR
Restoration and recovery work started Monday in the area damaged by last year’s massive Pioneer Fire, and will likely continue for the two weeks, according to forest officials. The Pine Flats hazard timber sale was awarded to the Boise Cascade Company, after it...
by Web Editor | Jan 4, 2017 | News, News/PR
John Redfield watches with pride as his son moves a laser-guided precision saw the size of a semi-truck wheel into place over a massive panel of wood. Redfield’s fingers are scarred from a lifetime of cutting wood and now, after decades of decline in the logging...
