by Web Editor | Mar 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
Long-delayed forest thinning on city-owned land in the Ashland Watershed in Ashland, Oregon is moving forward thanks to grant funding, an improved market for timber, and a neighboring thinning project on U.S. Forest Service land. Back in 2009, the Ashland City Council...
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
A logging proposal just outside Crater Lake National Park has reignited the Northwest’s logging wars in miniature, pitting timber groups anxious for jobs against environmentalists who have gathered 10,000 comments in opposition. The U.S. Forest Service’s...
by Web Editor | Feb 22, 2013 | News, News/PR
The man in charge of resource management for 20 million acres of national forest land in California believes it’s time the government and timber industry start doing a better job of working together. Speaking Thursday morning at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference,...
by Web Editor | Feb 11, 2013 | News, News/PR
Legislation that would move ownership and management of the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management lands in New Mexico has been sent to the House Agriculture and Water Resource Committee for study. House Bill 292 – The New Mexico Transfer of...
by Web Editor | Jan 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has abandoned a proposal to merge the Bridger-Teton and Caribou-Targhee national forests. A report prepared for acting Regional Forester Marlene Finley found that a joint forest wouldn’t save enough money and would compromise management and the...
