by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2017 | News, News/PR
In 1995, the U.S. Forest Service spent 16 percent of its total budget on fighting fires. Today, it’s 52 percent and growing. What’s changed? “Everything,” said Matthew Thompson, a research forester who works at the agency’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort...
by Web Editor | Aug 7, 2017 | News, News/PR
The harder we struggle against wildfires, the deeper we sink, like we’re in quicksand, says Mark Finney, research forester for the U.S Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. “It’s called the fire paradox,” says Finney, a fire behavior expert based at the...
by Web Editor | Jul 28, 2017 | News, News/PR
The West Virginia Division of Forestry sent a crew of 20 men to help fight wildfires in the Rocky Mountains. The group of 14 state foresters and six volunteer firefighters took off for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today, where they will meet four more crews before jetting...
by Web Editor | May 12, 2017 | News, News/PR
Texas A&M Forest Service is helping restore the threatened, iconic Ponderosa Pine forests of West Texas. After a myriad of environmental stresses destroyed nearly 75 percent of the majestic Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine population in the Davis Mountains it became...
by Web Editor | Jan 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
Spruce beetle was the most damaging forest insect pest in Colorado for the fifth consecutive year, based on a 2016 forest health aerial survey conducted by the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Rocky Mountain Region. Douglas-fir...