by Web Editor | Jan 30, 2017 | News, News/PR
A Forest Service program that pumped millions of dollars into rural communities has expired leaving more than 700 counties and 4,000 school districts facing sharply reduced revenue-sharing timber harvest payments. The Secure Rural Schools program, enacted in 2000, was...
by Web Editor | Jan 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
Spruce beetle was the most damaging forest insect pest in Colorado for the fifth consecutive year, based on a 2016 forest health aerial survey conducted by the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Rocky Mountain Region. Douglas-fir...
by Web Editor | Jan 25, 2017 | News, News/PR
Trees outnumber people 300 to 1 in the United States, with woodlands covering one-third of the country in the U.S. Forest Service’s latest census. Only trees at least 5 inches in diameter are counted in the U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis...
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...