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Source: BBC News They're known as "megafires", and they're becoming increasingly common and destructive in the wildlands of the western United States. Could overzealous firefighting itself be to blame? BBC North America Correspondent James Cook investigates. In a...

Source: Hakai Magazine By Lyndsey Gilpin Matthew Kirwan’s great-great-grandparents built their home on a piece of property along the Blackwater River in Robbins, Maryland. From the time he was a child, Kirwan explored and hunted there in a small forest grove near the...

Source: Huffington Post You have probably bought forest products like lumber for a home reno or notepaper for school supplies and wondered how your purchase affects the forest it came from. You may feel guilty, but you shouldn't if the forest products you buy are...

Source: The Economist IN THE early 1900's, an average forested acre in California supported fewer than 50 or so trees. After a century of efforts to fight wildfires, the average has risen to more than 300 (albeit mostly smaller) trees. Some might reckon such growth...

Source: Business in Vancouver Great Bear Rainforest Agreement On February 1, the B.C. government signed off on a landmark agreement that ended 20 years of environmental conflict over logging on B.C.’s central coast. Eighty-five per cent of the 6.4 million-hectare...

Source: Tree Hugger Make 2017 the year you support North America’s forests—like clockwork. Forests clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and help control our climate. Resolve to put the time to support forests on your monthly schedule, so forests can...

Source: Courthouse News By David Reece MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) – Four environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service to stop it from implementing a plan to manage 1,155 acres of forest in northwest Montana. Swan View Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan, Native...

Source: National Parks Traveler One strategy to control the spread of mountain pine beetles in Banff National Park sometimes does the opposite, a study by a University of British Columbia researcher shows. While pheromone baiting followed by tree removal —...

Source: Science Daily A method to control the spread of mountain pine beetles -- pheromone baiting -- may actually help the pest's population increase, UBC research.shows. A study by Rebecca Tyson, an associate professor of mathematics at UBC's Okanagan campus, used...

Source: Independent Record Collaborative groups working throughout Montana’s forests are looking for common ground with each other in a new organization. Montana Forest Collaborative Network held its first conference in Helena on Monday. The two-day event brought...

Source: The Forest Blog by Russ Vaagen This election season has been one for the ages.  It’s interesting to hear all of the different reactions to the election.  I think the response of those that supported Hillary are showing us why this has happened in the first...

Source: The Forest Blog, by Russ Vaagen What in the world does negotiating interests vs. positions mean? I think they are part of one of the stool’s three legs for successful collaboration. It’s often the one that is most easily overlooked. The three markers for a...