by Web Editor | Nov 6, 2013 | News, News/PR
Colorado’s U.S. Senator Mark Udall, a strong voice for proactively reducing wildfire risk throughout Colorado, led a bipartisan and bicameral letter pressing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to partner with the timber industry to reduce wildfire risks in...
by Web Editor | Sep 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack largely defended the federal government’s management of national forests amid criticisms that massive buildups of hazardous fuels have added to wildfires’ intensity. Vilsack said there’s “no question there’s...
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...