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By Erin Kelly and Elizabeth Bewley – Gannett Washington Bureau The Obama administration is crafting a new plan to manage the nation’s 155 national forests, including four in North Carolina and Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee, for the next 15 to 20 years. At stake is the future of 193 million acres of forests […]
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Source – About.com Logging Smart Loggers maintain sustainable forests by practicing selective logging. Timber is a renewable resource, this fact makes forest timber products one of the greenest materials available. Why not go one step farther and harvest timber in such a way that is conducive to its replenishment? Does that mean planting a tree […]
Ever wonder why we are so passionate about Montana? Video provided by: Mercury CSC Montana Governors Conference 2011
Source – About.com Logging Understanding Sustainable Forests and Forest Certification The words sustainable forest or sustained yield comes to us from foresters of the 18th and 19th century in Europe. At the time, much of Europe was being deforested, and foresters became increasingly concerned since wood was one of the driving forces in the European economy. Wood used for […]