by Web Editor | May 16, 2012 | News, News/PR
Paul Bunyan wouldn’t have known what to make of Gordon Ash’s little logging crew in the Pioneer Mountains last week. Instead of axes or saws, the U.S. Forest Service team went after trees with sticks of high explosive. “You’d calculate the proper amount of explosive,...
by Web Editor | Apr 30, 2012 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently outlined the federal government’s readiness for the wildland fire season to ensure protection for communities and restoration of forests and public lands across the country. The...
by Web Editor | Apr 25, 2012 | News, News/PR
Industries associated with hardwood growth and production may benefit from trademarked varieties of faster growing trees developed through a partnership between Purdue University and the U.S. Forest Service. Created in 1998, the Hardwood Tree Improvement and...
by Web Editor | Apr 23, 2012 | News, News/PR
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced a cooperative partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Canada’s Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food that will promote agroforestry to help landowners improve water quality, control soil...
by Web Editor | Apr 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
U.S. Forest Service officials in Colorado are calling it the conundrum on Conundrum Creek: how to remove six cows that wandered into a wilderness cabin high in the Rocky Mountains and froze to death, stiff as boards, when they couldn’t get out. For officials, here’s...
