by Web Editor | May 9, 2016 | News, News/PR
Nearly 30 years ago, a coalition of longtime adversaries turned unlikely bedfellows invited the public to a weeklong workshop in the woods to have a chat about one of the most polarizing issues of the time – land management. Surrounded by stakeholders whose interests...
by Web Editor | Apr 25, 2016 | News, News/PR
Forest ecologist Jerry Franklin has made a career of straddling two sometimes very different worldviews — that of the ecologist and the forester. The two professions historically didn’t see eye to eye, but Franklin, in his current role as a UW professor of...
by Web Editor | Oct 29, 2014 | News, News/PR
Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. announced today it has reached an agreement to sell approximately 165,000 acres of Montana and Washington forestland to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for $134 million. The sale is part of an effort to unite the checkerboard land...
by Web Editor | Aug 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Forest Service will award more than $14 million in funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to seven Forest Legacy Program projects aimed at protecting over 28,000 acres of working...
by Web Editor | May 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley today signed into law first-of-its-kind legislation that amends Maryland’s forest conservation policy to maintain the State’s current 40 percent tree canopy ─ a no-net-loss. The bill establishes new and expanded reforestation...