Author: rpalma

The mountain pine beetle has methodically taken over large swaths of forest from Mexico to British Columbia. Estimates indicate the tiny rice-sized beetle attacked 3.8 million acres of forest in 2011 and it is now affecting forest fire rates. In recent years, entrepreneurial wood products companies have rolled out a bevy of “beetle-kill” hardwood products, […]

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Question: What author once wrote, “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing”?       Answer: Norman Maclean in A River Runs Through It.

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Our list of beetle kill wood products keeps growing!  Eco friendly consumers all over the country have joined the recent craze of beautiful blue stain pine as a result of the mountain pine beetle. Millions of acres across the Rocky Mountains have been devastated, at Sustainable Lumber we salvage these beetle killed trees and supply clients all over […]

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Source: Portland Tribune Plan could create 2700 timber  jobs Regional forest conservation groups have released a new study showing how logging volume on federal lands in the Northwest could grow 44 percent if certain ecological criteria are followed. The report, Ecologically Appropriate Restoration Thinning in the Northwest Forest Plan Area, projects that annual timber cutting […]

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Question: The most vertical feet of skiing in the nation are found in what ski area?       Answer: Big Sky, with 4180 feet

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