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On 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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One of the most unique and eco-friendly floors in the world, Hand Scraped Beetle Kill Pine Flooring. Check out our hand scraped Beetle Kill Pine! Produced from salvaged trees decimated by the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic, hand scraped, available both unfinished or...
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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read moreUrban forests, and their rural cousins, help cities mitigate climate change
Soruce: Treesource Can innovative wood products and humans’ innate need to interact with nature help cities across the country achieve their commitments under the Paris climate accord? More than 400 U.S. mayors and cities have signed the Paris Accords, but do they...
read moreSustainable Forestry and Selective Harvesting
Source: About.com WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY & SELECTIVE HARVESTING Smart Loggers maintain sustainable forests by practicing selective logging and sustainable wood harvesting. Timber is a renewable resource, this fact makes forest timber products one of the...
read moreSustainable Wood Flooring
Trees are our breathing partners. You may not live in a forest, but you need trees in order to live. People and animals depend on trees and plants for oxygen. As you breathe in, your body uses oxygen. As you breathe out, it gives off carbon dioxide. Trees do just the...
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Evolution of our Beetle Kill Pine Products
The Mountain Pine Beetle has decimated millions of acres of Pine trees in Western North America. As these trees stand dead in the forest they start to dry out, rot, crack, and split. Salvaging and producing long lengths, wide dimensions, and large timbers used to be a...
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