by Web Editor | Feb 24, 2016 | News, News/PR
Forests nationwide are feeling the heat from increasing drought and climate change, according to a new study by scientists from 14 research institutions. “Over the last two decades, warming temperatures and variable precipitation have increased the severity of...
by Web Editor | Feb 22, 2016 | News, News/PR
More than 10 million acres of forest burned in 2015, the worst year for U.S. wildfires ever recorded. With incredibly dry conditions across the American West, fire lines were intensely hot and flames spread faster, producing some of the most dangerous conditions...
by Web Editor | Feb 19, 2016 | News, News/PR
Millions of acres of Colorado’s native forestlands have been impacted by bark beetles in the past two decades, and now an exotic tree pest – the emerald ash borer (EAB) – is threatening the state’s planted urban forests. The potential economic impacts of EAB in the...
by Web Editor | Feb 17, 2016 | News, News/PR
On paper, this region is blessed with a pioneering 2 million-acre forest restoration plan that is a model for the rest of the nation. But in reality, there is little to show yet for all the effort that has gone into the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI). More...
by Web Editor | Feb 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
Starting in 1988 and occurring at 12-year intervals since then, the Ashland Ranger District in Eastern Montana has suffered through nasty wildland fire seasons. From 1988 to 2012 almost 290,000 acres burned on the Ashland Ranger District — 66 percent of forest lands...
by Web Editor | Feb 8, 2016 | News, News/PR
There are promising results from 2015’s battle in the two decades of warfare between Black Hills National Forest and the mountain pine beetle. The latest surveys of the national forest and surrounding land show that the beetle epidemic has slowed overall,...
