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 | Apr 13, 2016 | News, News/PR
New plans released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) would increase logging on the agency’s 2.5 million acres west of the Cascades summit — but don’t expect more chain saws to fire up anytime soon. As expected, the BLM plan ran into an immediate...
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 | Dec 29, 2015 | News
The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine is deeply concerned that the campaign to create a national park in northern Maine has changed course a bit in the last few months and there is now an effort underway to convince President Obama to designate a national...
by Web Editor | Sep 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Baker County Commissioner Bill Harvey says that the federal government needs to get to work on a plan for salvage logging to quickly cut the timber left standing by area wildfires. “What they’ve done in the past is they’ve not logged them and they are allowed to fall...