by Web Editor | Jun 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
As crews continue to face off against a fast-moving wildfire in northern Colorado, some in the timber industry say the area’s fire danger has been heightened by U.S. Forest Service policies and an economy that discourages them from harvesting millions of acres of dead...
by Web Editor | Jun 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
In Oregon, huge swaths of the Willamette National Forest, perhaps as much as 12,000 acres, has stands of trees less than 40 years old that have never been thinned. The firs are crowded together, making it hard for sunlight to reach them. Competition for resources has...
by Web Editor | Jun 15, 2012 | News, News/PR
Massive wildfires in drought-parched Colorado and New Mexico tested the resources of state and federal crews Monday and underscored the need to replenish an aging U.S. aerial firefighting fleet needed to combat a year-round fire season. Wyoming diverted personnel and...
by Web Editor | Jun 8, 2012 | News, News/PR
While the number of wildfires around the country goes up every year, the amount of money the federal government is shelling out to fight those fires is getting cut by a lot. The head of the U.S. Forest Service, Chief Tom Tidwell, was in Albuquerque Tuesday and flew...
by Web Editor | Jun 6, 2012 | News, News/PR
When President Obama recently called on federal agencies to help young people find more work in the great outdoors, the U.S. Forest Service – with 193 million acres of prime outdoor space —responded quickly with jobs for hundreds of underserved youths. The America’s...
