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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 […]
Source: The Forest Blog by Russ Vaagen In Northeast Washington on August 1st, 2017 we woke up to smoke from wildfires. It wasn’t as thick here as it was in other areas, but it was bad at varying levels throughout the month. Now that September has started it feels like August was clear. The smoke […]
Source: Communities for Healthy Forests What happens after the fire is out? Are burn scars rehabilitated and replanted? The answer may surprise you. Find out more in the video and join the collective voice for education and forest restoration at: facebook.com/communitiesforhealthyforests
Source: Treesource by Georgia Institute of Technology Naturally burning timber and brush launch what is called fine particulate into the air at a rate three times as high as levels noted in emissions inventories at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new study. The microscopic specks that form aerosols are a hazard to human health, […]
Been a rough Summer in Montana. Forest Fires have ravaged our backyards since July. Not many people in the U.S. know since it hasn’t received much coverage in the news. If the U.S. Forest Service doesn’t start managing their forests, this will become the new norm. This video sums up our Summer.
Source: Treesource by Paul Barnum/Oregon Forest Resources Institute I don’t know about you, but the August incursion of smoke from wildfires burning in British Columbia gave me a sore throat and a headache. I felt bad for children, the elderly and people with breathing issues. Now come new studies saying things will probably get worse. Researchers at […]
Source: Healthy Forests.org Note: This column by Ed Regan originally appeared in the Independent-Record. Recent wildfires on the Lewis and Clark National Forests are illustrating the consequences of the “Cottonwood” case that is halting forest health projects throughout Montana. Once again the case comes at the expense of our forests, wildlife and.communities. Both the Park Creek […]
Source: Montana Public Radio Environmental conservation groups are suing to block a plan to log, thin, and prescription-burn about 2,900 acres in the Flathead National Forest. The groups say it violates federal.laws. The Beaver Creek Project borders Lindbergh Lake and the Mission Mountain Wilderness. Rich Kehr, the Flathead Forest’s Swan Lake District Ranger, says the biggest […]
My heart is broken for Montana. I am currently evacuated from my home town of Seeley Lake. Even without the threat of fire burning my home, I wake up daily to smoke so thick it chokes. Hazardous levels for health start at 150 ppm. We have daily awoken to numbers never before charted. 850, 950,1100. […]
Source: Missoulian by KIM BRIGGEMAN [email protected] Rice Ridge Fire Balloons to Over 100,000 Acres and is Growing OVANDO — North into the Bob Marshall Wilderness, south toward Kozy Korner, but mostly east, the Rice Ridge fire is out of control. The fire that started six weeks ago six miles north of Seeley Lake is now a […]
Source: Steve Daines, U.S. Senator Daines to Radical Environmentalists: Stop Blocking Forest Management Projects U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines today released the following statement on the Friends of the Wild Swan (FOWS), Swan View Coalition (SVC), Alliance for the Wild Rockies (A WR) and Native Ecosystems Council (NEC) 60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue under the […]
Source: Missoulian by Rob Chaney FLORENCE — Two federal cabinet secretaries joined two-thirds of Montana’s congressional delegation at the Lolo Peak fire base to decry the effect of lawsuits on firefighting. “We can’t do anything about the weather, but we can do things about forest management that make sense so we can diminish forest fires in […]
Source: KPAX by MTN News HAMILTON – New evacuation warnings have been issued for residents in Ravalli County living near the Meyers Fire. Ravalli County Sheriff Steve Holton says the evacuation warning is for residents from Forest Service Road 5778 (Teepee Creek) to Forest Service Road 724 (Little East Fork) in the East Fork area. […]
Source: Wood Business By Maria Church I had a conversation with a close friend recently that naturally turned to our jobs. I told her I’m proud to work with an innovative industry that’s helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Her eyebrow shot up.That reaction is not surprising, I told her. It’s counterintuitive for the public to see […]