Category: Forest Products Industry related
Source: Building Design and Construction Myths About Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) A CLT expert clears up several common misconceptions and myths surrounding the use of wood as a building material. Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) was initially developed in Europe as an alternative to stone, masonry and concrete construction. It is essentially mass timber plates made from […]
The building industry is constantly growing, evolving, and changing. As technology and science continue to advance, new products are created every day. The Forest Products industry is no different. One of the newest advances within the Forest Products Industry is the development of CLT. In the next few months, we will be posting articles and […]
Source: Healthy Forest Healthy Communities This past summer, wildfires scorched nearly eight million acres across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Most of the fires, which cost taxpayers $2 billion to fight, were on national forest land. Increased fuel loads over the last century—resulting from trees that are diseased, insect-infested, and dead—are a major cause of […]
Source: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation INFLUENCE OF BEETLE KILL ON ELK AND HUNTER RESOURCES SELECTION AND INTERACTIONS The epidemic of mountain beetle kill within the forests of the West is well documented with more than 1.5 million acres of forest affected in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming alone. Such changes have a dramatic impact on […]
Source: Healthy Forest Healthy Communities The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Resilient Federal Forests Act on Nov. 1. In the run up the vote, there were many misleading statements about what the bill does, and doesn’t do. Thanks to the House Natural Resources Committee, here are myths and facts about this bill that improves the […]
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Source: Missoulian When the chainsaw roared Tuesday and the chips began to fly off the base of the 79-foot Engelmann spruce destined to light up the U.S. Capitol’s lawn this Christmas, a lot of pride radiated from the direction of Pete Tallmadge’s family. “We’re not really too much for hoopla,” said Tallmadge’s mother, Chris. “But […]
Source: KPAX.com BY DENNIS BRAGG – KPAX · IMAGE BY VICTOR ZASTOLSKIY / DREAMSTIME.COM MISSOULA – Firefighting is entering a new era, as fire crews face blazes with greater intensity and fewer resources. But the experts who are wrestling with the fire problem say there’s no “one size fits all solution”, and “red tape” and court cases aren’t necessarily at the top […]
Source: Market Watch By LINDAÅKESON MCGURK What if there were a better way to do early childhood education? It’s a common complaint among teachers as well as parents in the U.S. these days: kindergarten has become the new first grade and the unintended casualty of that is preschool, which has consequently become the new kindergarten. Many early childhood […]
Source: The Forest Blog by Russ Vaagen I’ve been thinking about forest management as a social science for many years. As a teen, I remember wondering why people were fighting about the activities in our forests. Of course, I understood the concern over heavy-handed clear cutting, but I wondered why there was anger over the […]
Source: Spokesman The U.S. Forest Service would get new rules to help fight wildfires in some of its most at-risk areas under a bipartisan plan introduced Thursday by Northwest senators. The proposal would try to reduce the catastrophic wildfires that have plagued Western states in recent years by concentrating on federal forests with ponderosa pines, […]
Source: gohunt.com Article republished with permission from the Boone and Crockett Club. “Love It to Death” is the third album by the Alice Cooper band, which was released in 1971. Loving it to death is how we, as a nation, seem to be treating much of our public lands, especially our national forests. More people are engaging in […]
Source: The Forest Blog by Russ Vaagen I read and hear people talking about how the environmentalists are to blame for all our forest health woes. I also hear about the same on the other side of the coin saying that over-harvesting and past logging is the reason our forests are in the shape they […]
Source: Missoulian A discovery by scientists at Montana State University Billings may help forest managers battle the next epidemic of bark beetles. Research at the university found that a specific molecule, as well as a few variants, slow the growth of fungi related to the mountain pine beetle and the western pine beetle. Managing the […]
Source: The Forest Blog by Russ Vaagen What is “Carbon Friendly Forestry?” It’s two things actually. First, it was a conference put on by the Washington Environmental Council, a Seattle-based environmental organization. Second, it’s an idea that forestry can be environmentally friendly and have a positive impact on climate change through carbon management. The key to this […]