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Source: Missoulian If you thought the beetle-killed forests in Montana look bad, check out the Idaho-sized hole they’ve chewed in British Columbia. Investigative reporter Andrew Nikiforuk brought some equally massive metaphors to describe the impact the insect “the size of a mouse turd” has had on Canadian ecology and politics. The combination of high-grade logging […]
Source: Missoulian What would you think if you heard your local Forest Service was proposing to improve 600 miles of forest roads in need of maintenance? What would you think if the Forest Service was proposing to include an opportunity to provide jobs to small-scale loggers to perform the road maintenance work while they could […]
Source: NPR Fire scientists are calling it “the new normal”: a time of fires so big and hot that no one can remember anything like it. One of the scientists who coined that term is Craig Allen. I drive with him to New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument, where he works for the U.S. Geological Survey. […]
Question: What percent of Montanans live in a household with at least one gun? Answer: 57%. The only states with a higher percentage are Alaska (58%); South Dakota (59%); and Wyoming (60%)
Why does our hand scraped flooring look so much better than everything else on the market? Because our hand scraped flooring is actually done by hand. Every piece is scraped with only a hand tool and good old American hard work. Just about every “hand scraped” floor a consumer sees in the market place is […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune Forests » Loggers say yes, but environmentalists say blazes may be just the cure for Utah stands. Kamas • As vast as Utah’s wildfire season has been already, there are legions of dead, red trees in the Uinta Mountains quietly waiting their turn to burn. It didn’t have to be […]
Source: The Meadow Lake Progress The mountain pine beetle is making its away across western Canada, said the ministry of environment. The Saskatchewan ministry of environment is partnering with Great Western Forestry to mark and remove infested trees in northwest Saskatchewan as well as the Cypress Hills area. “The mountain pine beetle represents a significant […]
Question: In what city would you find the U.S. speed skating team training at the High Altitude Sports Center, the highest sports center in the world at 5,528 feet in elevation? Answer: Butte Montana
By: SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE, INC SFI Awards Grant To Support Water Quality Research The World Resources Institute (WRI), a global development and environmental think tank, will receive a grant of $35,000 USD to research how forest certification standards can help protect American lakes and rivers, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) announced today. “This grant will […]
Question: The most common collision on Montana highways occurs between two moving vehicles, but what is the second most common item collide with? Answer: Wildlife, with about 1800 collisions per year.
Don’t forget to tune into the A&E channel tomorrow (8/25/2012) and watch Sell This House: Extreme. 9:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, they will be installing our Beetle Killed Pine flooring. The home is located in Concord, MA Special thanks to A&E for choosing our eco-friendly beetle kill pine flooring. Click here for more info on […]
Source: High CountryNews I was wandering around Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) last week, absorbing the cooling sight of snowfields and the 30-degree temperature drop earned by more than doubling my elevation from Boulder. On my way along Trail Ridge Road, I stopped at the Farview Curve overlook on the west side of the park, […]
Question: What lake in Montana is the 5th largest man-made lake in the U.S. and has more shoreline than the state of California; totaling 1520 miles? Answer: Fort Peck Lake
Source: kurl8.com KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The manager of the Swan River State Forest in northwestern Montana says an attempt to put together a timber salvage is being made for 1.5 million board feet from various types of trees blown down during a severe storm last month. Dan Roberson tells the Daily Inter Lake (http://bit.ly/QmURzT […]
Source: OPB News The U.S. Forest Service has made forest thinning one of its top priorities, particularly in fire-prone and unhealthy dry forests. But environmental groups say dense Douglas fir plantations on the wet side of the Cascades need to be thinned too. And that could help increase the lumber supply. On a steep slope in […]