by Web Editor | Aug 19, 2013 | News, News/PR
When Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter met with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell on Friday, Tidwell remarked at the fact that Idaho must have 14 million dead trees, which provides perfect fuel for severe wildfires. Governor Otter and Senator Jim Risch...
by Web Editor | Apr 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
Idaho’s state Land Board has approved a timber sale plan for 2014 that calls for harvesting 249 million board feet from state endowment lands, the highest logging level in more than a decade. The timber cut has been fixed at 247 million board feet for the last several...
by Web Editor | Dec 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
Off and on for the last few weeks, the whirl of helicopter blades has been a common sound for the residents of Darby. An Idaho-based helicopter logging company has used the Logger Days grounds as its base station as it finishes hauling out the last logs from the...
by Web Editor | Sep 21, 2012 | News, News/PR
Two environmental groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service over a planned logging project in north-central Idaho because they contend the logging will violate the Endangered Species Act. Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Clearwater filed the lawsuit...
by Web Editor | Aug 17, 2012 | News, News/PR
State officials say logging companies harvested a record amount of timber on Idaho’s endowment lands in the past year. According to the Idaho Department of Lands, 330 million board feet of timber worth about $50 million was harvested during the fiscal year that...
