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Source: Garden News The Nature Conservancy commends the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry for highlighting the links between forest health and rural economies. Restoring public lands through science-based, active management is good for our American lands and economy. America’s forests, which cover one-third of the United States, provide tremendous value by […]
Source: Missoulian Blue-stained pine and beetle-killed trees dominated the morning discussion at a local business Monday, where a delegation of Chinese and South Korean wood importers continued their Montana tour. With tariffs placed on wood exports from Russia and logging limitations in China, members of the trade mission spent the day in western Montana, looking […]
Source: Missoulian If Montana’s forest fringes continue filling with houses, wildland firefighting costs could double, according to a report by the Bozeman-based Headwaters Economics. “Protecting homes is a major cost and safety issue in fighting fire,” said Headwaters author Chris Mehl. “But the real question is personal responsibility: Who pays for that? Right now, the […]
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A common question we get is “why does your beetle kill pine have so much more blue stain and character than what I find at the local lumber yard”? Most beetle kill pine products on the market are sourced from large sawmills using traditional logging practices. Most of them come from the abundance of Lodge […]
Just a reminder why we live in Montana http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_popout&v=BUOQ_yPW_0s Photo compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos
Source: BY JANET URQUHART – ASPEN TIMES · IMAGE BY DAVE POWELL, USDA FOREST SERVICE, BUGWOOD.ORG The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies has developed a four-minute, animated short film, “What’s Happening in Our Forest?” to raise awareness about forest-health issues among the public and policymakers. The film has been submitted to the New York Animated Short Film Festival, and if Chris Lane, […]
Source: NFPA Recent wildfire seasons have provided mainstream media with plenty of material for dramatic images and attention-grabbing headlines, some more accurate than others. We often worry that misleading coverage can deliver the wrong message to the public, but it can also be a problem among wildfire professionals. Lately, I’ve had to re-evaluate my own […]
Source: CBC News The mountain pine beetle is on the move to higher elevations and threatening new species of trees and entire sensitive forest ecosystems, according to a new study. The resilient beetle has wreaked havoc mainly on lodge pole pine in B.C., ruining 18 million hectares of forest — the equivalent of about five […]
We just closed on our new Missoula warehouse and showroom. We’re slowing stocking it with inventory and setting up our showroom. We hope to have an official grand opening March 1st. One of the items we’ll be inventorying is Beetle Kill Pine slabs. We just stocked more today and have some beautiful book match […]
Heavy Blue Wood Stain Vs Light Blue Wood Stain Here’s a bit of education on blue stains in Beetle Kill Pine for most consumers: Most of the blue stain beetle kill pine on the market is a residual product from large sawmills. Large sawmills harvest beetle kill pine trees that are still fairly “green”; meaning […]
Source: The Wildlife Society News During the 2012 fire season from June through August, wildfires in the drought- stricken western and central United States burned more than 3.6 million acres of forest and shrubland. In the hot, dry, windy conditions seen that season, a single spark can start an understory fire that ascends into the […]
Source: Denver Post PINEWOOD LAKE — A federal forester flicked a Bic, igniting a first bone-dry pile of culled young pines — testing conditions for the looming task of torching 180,000 similar piles across Colorado. The continued construction of houses in burn zones is forcing this effort to thin overly dense forests and reduce the risk […]
Source: Calaveras Enterprise For the first time in many years, loggers and conservation groups are working together and the results have been stunning, according to Katherine Evatt, president of the Pine Grove-based Foothill Conservancy. The Amador Calaveras Consensus Group has been working in the Stanislaus and Eldorado national forests on projects that are part of […]
Hand scraped flooring has been a very popular trend for the past 10 or so years. Will this trend continue? We’d love to hear your comments. As a flooring company we’re seeing an up tick with any textured flooring. Our most popular have been our hand scraped Douglas Fir and our circle sawn Douglas Fir. […]