by Web Editor | Apr 5, 2017 | News, News/PR
To restore a forest and reduce the risk of severe wildfires, a conservation group is cutting down trees. The Nature Conservancy is selectively logging dry forests in Washington’s Central Cascades as part of a long-term plan to make thousands of privately owned...
by Web Editor | Dec 28, 2016 | News, News/PR
There are warning signs that some forests in the western U.S. may have a hard time recovering from the large and intense wildfires that have become more common as the climate warms. After studying 14 burned areas across 10 national forests in California, scientists...
by Web Editor | Dec 19, 2016 | News, News/PR
In the early 1900s, an average forested acre in California supported fewer than 50 or so trees. After a century of efforts to fight wildfires, the average has risen to more than 300 (albeit mostly smaller) trees. Some might reckon such growth wonderful, but it is a...
by Web Editor | Jun 13, 2016 | News, News/PR
Information released recently by a coalition of conservation organizations revealed six years of impressive results from the federal Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) program. Created in 2010, the program was created to increase the pace of forest...
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...
