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More aggressive firefighting approach means more fire, smoke
Source: Missoulian The U.S. Forest Service’s “shared stewardship” approach to wildland firefighting will take more resources than the agency currently has, architects of the new strategy say. And the challenge of cleaning up 35 million acres of hazardous forest fuel...
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read moreFederal Wildfire Fighting Spend Surges to Record High
Source: Bloomberg Government Wildfire contract spending in FY 2017 topped $1 billion for first time Many regions exceeded 10-year average for burned acreage As the number and severity of wildfires grew nationwide in 2017, federal contract spending on wildfire...
read moreMeet Gus – World’s Largest Larch Tree
Source: National Geographic Trees grow big in the water-abundant Seeley-Swan valleys, but the granddaddy of them all is a 1,000-year-old western larch, known locally as Gus. A gentle, mile-long nature trail loops through the Girard Grove near the western shore of...
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read moreZinke acknowledges role of climate change in wildfires
Source: KBZK.com Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke suggested that climate change may have a role in the recent wildfires that have ravaged California. When asked by CBS News reporter Weija Jiang whether he accepted that climate change was part of the problem, Zinke said:...
read moreOn the Front Lines of America’s War on Fire
Source: Mens Journal by Kyle Dickman On a cool morning last November, Tirso Rojas, a lifelong firefighterOpens a New Window. turned disaster-cleanup specialist, parked his Chevy Silverado pickupOpens a New Window. among a cluster of burned houses in the charred...
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read moreOld-growth is great, but here’s why we need new-growth forests, too
Source: All About Birds By Scott Weidensaul If there’s been a central, unquestioned tenet of bird conservation in the past quarter-century, it’s been the absolute importance of large, intact tracts of mature woodland. As populations of species such as Wood Thrush,...
read moreFor the 2018 Fire Season – Lightning will be the Wild Card
Source: KGVO Radio Wildfire experts are saying the upcoming fire season will be ‘above normal’, meaning more than 300,000 acres burned, due to hotter, drier conditions through September. Michael Richmond, meteorologist with Predictive Services at the Northern Rockies...
read moreForest Service chief approves salvage project for Sunrise fire on Lolo
Source: Missoula Current The U.S. Forest Service is reviewing 14 recent wildfires to conduct post-fire salvage operations in western Montana, including five on the Lolo National Forest, one of which was approved by the agency’s interim chief earlier this month. Acting...
read moreForest Service wants to log 5,600 acres, replant 16,000 burned by Rice Ridge fire
Source: Missoula Current BY LAURA LUNDQUIST The Lolo National Forest wants make the best of last year’s 160,000-acre Rice Ridge fire by logging some trees. This week, the forest released an environmental assessment proposing to log more than 5,600 acres and replant...
read moreHappy Independence Day! Note: Holiday Business Hours
Being that the 4th of July is on a Wednesday this year, we will be shut down the 2nd-4th of July to enjoy it with our families. We will get back to you as soon as possible, thank you for understanding as we celebrate this great Nation!
read moreAnalysis: In zeal to restrict logging, advocacy groups exploit dubious research
Source: Treesource In the end, the orange-coated Lorax protesting outside the 2018 International Mass Timber Conference was not the most surprising development that March morning in Portland, Oregon. That came when I visited with the protest’s organizer and asked why...
read morePublic comment period opens for Rice Ridge Fire salvage
Source: KPAX SEELEY LAKE - Lolo National Forest managers are beginning to take comment on plans to salvage several thousand acres of timber from last summer's massive Rice Ridge Fire. The lightning-caused fire scorched over 160,000 acres and was the largest fire in...
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