by Web Editor | Sep 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
This year’s horrific wildfire season in the West is spurring Congress to move toward providing $700 million in emergency disaster aid to the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies facing rapidly rising firefighting costs. The emergency aid – contained in...
by Web Editor | Aug 10, 2015 | News, News/PR
For the first time in its 110-year history, the Forest Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is spending more than 50 percent of its budget to suppress the nation’s wildfires. A new report released today by the Forest Service estimates that within...
by Web Editor | Aug 5, 2015 | News, News/PR
A 1,017-acre forest thinning project associated with the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) began Monday on the Flagstaff Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest. The project, known as the Weatherford 4FRI Task Order, is part of the 4FRI Phase One...
by Web Editor | Jul 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
A large wildfire fuels-reduction project meant to protect subdivisions near forestland from the Tetons to the Snake River is being pursued once again by the Bridger-Teton National Forest. A U.S. Forest Service document completed this week outlines plans to thin 2,526...
by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2015 | News, News/PR
A recent study by U.S. Forest Service and university researchers shows that thinning and prescribed fire can protect stands of southern pines on a landscape level from infestations by southern pine beetle. The results, published online in the Journal of Forestry, also...
