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Source: Clark Fork Valley Press Under authority granted by the last Legislature, Governor Steve Bullock’s Forest in Focus Initiative has directed the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to invest up to one million dollars in the USDA Forest Service for projects including restoration, fuel reduction, and forest health projects in.Montana. On April 19, Bullock […]
Over the past few years, the Mountain Pine Beetle has decimated millions of acres of Western Pine trees. As these trees stand dead in the forest they start to dry out, rot, crack, and split. Sustainable Lumber Company of Missoula, MT has had to adjust the pine wall panels and other products they manufacture around […]
Source: CNN By: Holly Yan, CNN The Fort McMurray wildfire could keep burning into next year — even if we can’t see it. The inferno in western Canada has already torched over 500,000 acres — more than twice the size of New York City. Even after the flames die down, the fire has a “good chance” […]
Source: Newsweek In the 20th century, chestnut blight and Dutch elm disease decimated billions of U.S. trees, in forests and along urban and suburban streets. The tree diseases, caused by invasive pests, effectively changed the face of one American city landscape after another—chestnut trees were virtually wiped out and elms diminished to but a few […]
Source: Billings Gazette HELENA — Montana and federal officials have made a deal that will allow the state’s five firefighting helicopters to respond to some blazes on federal lands, after they were barred from doing so last year as fires raging across the West led to equipment shortages. The agreement allows the retrofitted Vietnam-era helicopters […]