by Web Editor | Jun 7, 2013 | News, News/PR
Private landowners and public land managers soon will be able to use a novel type of straw made from beetle-kill Colorado pines to help reduce erosion and flooding after wildfires. Rogue Resources Inc., a Steamboat Springs-based forest products business, is now...
by Web Editor | Apr 3, 2013 | News, News/PR
A snail as big as your foot, an insect the size of chocolate sprinkles and a mold related to the one that caused the Irish potato famine are on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s list of the top pests that threaten America’s crops and forestland. Some of...
by Web Editor | Mar 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service expects to shoulder $212 million in sequestration cuts this year, but no one can say how that might play out at the local level. Forest Service Region 1 spokeswoman Elizabeth Slown said Monday all requests for information were being referred to...
by Web Editor | Nov 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service will spend millions to prop up the wood product industry in Colorado and to subsidize more widespread logging projects in the name of forest health, restoration and renewable energy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week announced two...
by Web Editor | Oct 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
In the worst wildfire season on record, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service ran out of money to pay for firefighters, fire trucks and aircraft that dump retardant on monstrous flames. So officials did about the only thing they could: take money from...
