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...
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 | Jan 6, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Helena National Forest and the Lewis & Clark National Forest have shared staff and various processes for several years. Now, the two have merged into one forest. Bill Avey, supervisor of the new Helena – Lewis & Clark National Forest says the public...
by Web Editor | Dec 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
A long time conservation activist is critical of the move to collaboration between the Washington timber industry, Forest Service, and environmental groups. In recent Years, The NorthEast Washington Forestry Coalition has brought together parties that used to be on...
by Web Editor | Dec 7, 2015 | News, News/PR
Over the last few months, we have written extensively about the extreme wildfire season in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and some of the lingering effects that the devastation will have in the near-term. The fires have been in the mainstream news for months, but a...
