Category: Forest Products Industry related
Source: KPAX SEELEY LAKE – Lolo National Forest managers are beginning to take comment on plans to salvage several thousand acres of timber from last summer’s massive Rice Ridge Fire. The lightning-caused fire scorched over 160,000 acres and was the largest fire in Western Montana last summer. While much of the area is too steep […]
Soruce: Treesource Can innovative wood products and humans’ innate need to interact with nature help cities across the country achieve their commitments under the Paris climate accord? More than 400 U.S. mayors and cities have signed the Paris Accords, but do they have a plan for how to accomplish the attendant goals? Forests in their […]
Source: About.com WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY & SELECTIVE HARVESTING Smart Loggers maintain sustainable forests by practicing selective logging and sustainable wood harvesting. Timber is a renewable resource, this fact makes forest timber products one of the greenest materials available. Why not go one step further and harvest timber in such a way that is conducive […]
Source: Treesource California Governor Jerry Brown vowed last week to step up efforts to make forests more resilient to drought and wildfire by allocating more dollars toward thinning projects and prescribed burns. Brown said he will carve out $96 million as part of his revised budget proposal, which was unveiled Friday. The money will come […]
Source: News Channel 21 WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), announced the introduction Friday of legislation that would reauthorize and expand the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. According to a news release from Merkley’s office, “This critical program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based […]
Source: All About Birds by Scott Weidensaul If there’s been a central, unquestioned tenet of bird conservation in the past quarter-century, it’s been the absolute importance of large, intact tracts of mature woodland. As populations of species such as Wood Thrush, which evolved to nest deep in the interior of mature woodlands, have continued to fall […]
Source: Courthouse News Service (CN) – Better forest management would not only prevent wildfires but could serve as a valuable water-conservation tool, according to a study published Tuesday. California could save billions of gallons annually by undertaking significant forest-thinning operations, according to scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation and the Sierra Critical Zone Observatory. […]
Source: Mercury News Environmentalists who have fought loggers for generations have a surprising new strategy to save California’s storied old-growth redwood forests: Sustainable Logging. Save the Redwoods League, a venerable San Francisco organization that has preserved more than 214,000 acres of redwood forest since it was founded in 1918, is embarking on a $5 million […]
Source: National Forest Foundation In 2018, National Forest Foundation is launching a campaign to plant 50 million trees on our National Forests. Natural disasters such as wildfire, insects and disease outbreaks are jeopardizing the very things that make our forests so wonderful, the majestic trees that grow from Maine to California. That’s why the National […]
Source: Daily Pressby, MSU Extension Forester, Bill Cook 10 Myths About Trees & Deforestation Working every year with hundreds of school kids and various public groups, several misconceptions, underlying assumptions, or “myths” seem to bubble up to the surface on a regular basis. How many of the following 10 have you harbored? 1. Trees provide […]
Source: The Missoula Current By Sherry Devlin Lolo National Forest managers want to replant native ponderosa pine and western larch on 1,633 acres burned so severely in last summer’s Lolo Peak fire that they likely cannot naturally regenerate. Another 6,247 acres would be considered for replanting if natural regeneration does not occur as expected, said […]
Source: The Journal By Jacy Marmaduke The Coloradoan FORT COLLINS – There is life after death for Colorado’s forests. But to get there, the people who manage them must solve an economic quandary. Colorado’s 834 million dead trees can start anew as your favorite rocking chair, the mulch in your garden, heat for Front Range cities – you […]
Source: Outside Online A new book by Heather Hansen explores the complicated world of wildland-urban interface firefighting as it unfolded in the Cold Springs Fire near Nederland, Colorado On July 9, 2016, two hitchhikers camping illegally on private land north of Nederland, Colorado, piled rocks onto a campfire that they hadn’t fully extinguished. Shortly after, […]
Source: REI Following the devastating and deadly wildfires of 2017, federal lawmakers agreed last week—after years of negotiation—to change the way wildland firefighting is funded. Congress included the reform as part of the $1.3 trillion spending bill, which President Trump signed into law on Friday. The funding fix helps avoid “fire borrowing” and treats large-scale […]
Source: The Forest Blog by Russ Vaagen Climate Change caused by human activity is a theory. Is it possible that human activity is influencing the earth’s climate? Sure. Is it probable that it’s having an effect on our climate? It seems likely. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a theory. Basing a movement […]