by Web Editor | Mar 21, 2016 | News, News/PR
If you visit the Ochoco, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests, it doesn’t take long to find areas where forest conditions are dominated by dense stands with thick ladder fuels. The problem with these overcrowded forest conditions, which have also experienced...
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,...
by Web Editor | Apr 22, 2015 | News, News/PR
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said today that the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI), the largest landscape-scale restoration initiative of its kind, has reached a pivotal milestone towards achieving accelerated forest restoration on more than 500,000...
by Web Editor | Mar 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
Mountain pine beetles have left vast tracts of dead, dry trees in the West, raising fears that they’re more vulnerable to wildfire outbreaks, but a new study found no evidence that beetle-infested forests are more likely to burn than healthy ones. In a paper...