by Web Editor | Oct 12, 2016 | News, News/PR
Four years into the drought, bark beetles did what was expected of them in the conifer woods of Tuolumne County. They bored into the trunks of moisture-stressed pines, cutting off the trees’ nutrient flow. Millions of dead trees mark the landscape, some of them in...
by Web Editor | Oct 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
Two western senators urged members of the conference committee negotiating a comprehensive energy package to move quickly because their states have been devastated by this year’s wildfire season. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Steve Daines, D-Mont., sent...
by Web Editor | Oct 7, 2016 | News, News/PR
Forestry experts are working to bring back native trees and ecosystems in southern Illinois forests by letting in the sunshine. It’s not too often you hear the sound of chainsaws inside Trail of Tears State Forest in Union County, Illinois. But Tuesday was an...
by Web Editor | Oct 5, 2016 | News, News/PR
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said his agency is trying to manage 60 million acres in need of restoration with 40 percent fewer staff and dollars than he had a decade ago. In an interview with the Missoulian on Tuesday, Tidwell said the agency would depend on...
by Web Editor | Sep 19, 2016 | News, News/PR
State foresters would have more ways to help manage federal and private forests under a bipartisan proposal authored by senators Steve Daines and Amy Klobuchar. Daines, R-Mont., and Klobuchar, D-Minn., introduced the Environmental and Economic Benefits Restoration Act...
by Web Editor | Sep 14, 2016 | News, News/PR
Amid rising numbers of at-risk wildlife in the South, the American Forest Foundation (AFF), a leading forest conservation organization that works with family forest owners, recently released a new report that reveals private and family landowners in the South offer a...
