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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 […]
Source: The Daily Sentinel By Greg Walcher If you have fond memories of roasting marshmallows around the campfire, and making s’mores with the kids, you may be surprised to learn that you’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Fortunately, the U.S. Forest Service has finally published guidelines on the correct method for roasting marshmallows and […]
Source: Treesource by Greg M. Peters In 2013, Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Sprajc hacked his way through a remote jungle on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The modern-day Indiana Jones was on the trail of a huge discovery: a lost Mayan city obscured by centuries of nearly impenetrable forest. It wasn’t the first ancient city unearthed from the jungle: Sprajc found […]
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Source: Missoulian by KAREN WICKERSHAM and BRIDGET JOHNSON Montana is on fire, we’ve been breathing smoke for months, and it’s human nature to look for someone or something to blame, such as environmentalists or the U.S. Forest Service. But the fact is we can’t log our way out, we can’t fight our way out, we can […]
Source: Montana Standard – DAVE ATKINS and 11 co-signers Forest Fuel.Reduction Over the years, occasional guest columns have argued incorrectly that fuel treatments in our forests don’t affect wildfires. George Wuerthner’s column of Wednesday, Aug. 2, is among the most recent and misleading. We the undersigned are compelled to provide a more thorough and nuanced […]
Source: Capital Press For many Western city dwellers, wildfires just got personal. For those who had not witnessed the blast-furnace heat and the eye-stinging smoke of a wildfire along with the mass destruction of timber, homes, businesses and wildlife, last week was a learning experience. Nearly every corner of the West was on fire. From […]
Source: Treesource by Sherry Devlin Are the 2017 wildfire season and its long, miserable, smoke-choked days the new normal? University of Montana journalism professor Joe Eaton recently sat down with UM fire ecology professor Philip Higuera to explore the reasons why the West is burning up this summer. The resulting Q&A, published Sept. 11 by City […]
Source: americanforests.org By Melanie Friedel, American Forests Do you know where your water comes from? Well, you’re about to. There is a long process every drop of water endures before it reaches our faucets, and we can thank forests for much of that process. Trees work as water filtration systems, intercepting, absorbing and purifying the […]
Source: Petapixel by Joel Wolfson I was committed to burning my property. I know this sounds a bit crazy but we’re talking about a prescribed burn. My wife researched programs in our area for homeowners to reduce fire hazards. In our area, the firefighters are cross-trained for both wildland and structure fires so they are perfectly […]