by Web Editor | Apr 4, 2018 | News, News/PR
Forests know no jurisdictional bounds. Insects, fire, and disease spread quickly without a thought to who has authority to stop them. So to be successful, efforts to manage forest health, and its impacts on people and critters, can’t focus on who owns what. That’s...
by Web Editor | Feb 5, 2018 | News, News/PR
Last year’s intense fire season led to calls for more “treatment” of federal forests to remove excess fuel that can make for bigger, hotter wildfires. In November, House Republicans — including Oregon’s Second District Representative Greg Walden — passed a...
by Web Editor | Nov 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
Sawmills and pulp mills in the US Northwest have been struggling to build log inventories for the winter season because of the unusually long fire season this year, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. Increased competition for small-diameter logs in the...
by Web Editor | Oct 28, 2016 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest up to $7 million in grants for projects designed to expand wood products and wood energy markets that support sustainable forest management, especially in...
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...