by Web Editor | Oct 5, 2016 | News, News/PR
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said his agency is trying to manage 60 million acres in need of restoration with 40 percent fewer staff and dollars than he had a decade ago. In an interview with the Missoulian on Tuesday, Tidwell said the agency would depend on...
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 | Sep 9, 2016 | News, News/PR
The nine forest specialists had expected to drive into the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest on a kind of a rescue mission. They never made it that Monday morning in August. Instead, they had to watch as wildfire swept through the very woods they hoped to save with...
by Web Editor | Aug 31, 2016 | News, News/PR
A federal lawsuit stemming from a 65,000-acre fire in Central Washington last summer challenges the U.S. Forest Service’s authority to suspend environmental laws and take emergency actions during a wildfire. A Eugene-based environmental group, Forest Service Employees...
by Web Editor | Aug 19, 2016 | News, News/PR
Everyone can understand the importance of a yearly checkup for monitoring one’s general health and wellbeing. Regular “checkups” are also necessary to gauge the overall health and monitoring needs of U.S. forests, so managers, scientists, and decision makers look to...
