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Source: 25x’25 Alliance http://www.25×25.org/25x’25 today released a Wood-to-Energy Policy Roadmap concluding that the focused use of woody biomass to help meet America’s energy needs could increase the nation’s forest land base and improve the environmental services that land provides. The findings are among the principal conclusions developed by a diverse panel of leading forestry, conservation, scientific and […]
Source – Missoulian Foresters from around the world came to western Montana this week to learn how to simplify their timber management. “Other states have very restrictive rules, while Montana adopted a voluntary system that takes advantage of stakeholder interest,” said Andy White of the Rights and Resources Initiative, which organized the conference. “It more […]
Source: Ravalli Republic To parody yet another song: ‘where have all the flower’s gone?’ by Pete Seeger; ‘where have all the sawmills gone?’ Most Montana wood products manufacturers are geared to supply the U.S. housing market. U.S. housing starts were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 523,000 units in April, 10.6 percent below the […]
Source: Missoula Independent Guarding the Burn – The Great Burn of.1910 Bob Clark first glimpsed it a decade ago from the summit of Grave Peak, in eastern Idaho. Looking north, he saw a stretch of jagged forestland with snowcapped peaks, granite cliffs and grand vistas—and asked himself, “What the hell is.that?” He was looking at […]
Source: West Yellowstone News It may not make sense to the casual passerby. As a matter of fact, it might even seem wrong. But for many people who have lived in the rural Rocky Mountains, the project work going on north of West Yellowstone in Gallatin National Forest lands is comforting. Gallatin Forest officials have […]