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Source: KPAX MISSOULA- The Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce says the wood industry in Western Montana is not dead and on Friday, 45 people attended the chamber's annual Timber Tour that was held at McCormick Park. The days of bustling timber mills may be over, but...

Source: Missoulian WOODWORTH – Looking at some cutthroat trout from a brand-new bridge over Trail Creek, Seeley Lake Ranger District fisheries biologist Shane Hendricks saw a new way of doing business. “Replacing this culvert with a bridge opened up 11 miles of trout...

Of all the voices expected to weigh in on the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) continued insistence on monopolizing forest certification standards, some onlookers may be surprised at the most recent entrant into the fray. Source: Breitbart In a Mother Nature...

Source: Tucson Citizen VERNON – In the dark, while the sun is still hours to the east, trucks carrying WB Contracting crews rumble up a forest road to a rutted clearing. The headlights catch glints of metal, then reveal a row of machines in the shadows. The men run...

Source: SCA The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has released a report highlighting the key role forests and forest products play for a sustainable world. Making more people aware of this is high on SCA’s agenda. “This report shows the important role...

Source: Missoulian SEELEY LAKE – In the deep shade of the Lolo National Forest, the rotting stumps of old-growth pine and larch trees are a tell-tale sign of how things were. The thick rejuvenation of Douglas fir may be an indication of things to come, and Andrew...

Source: Craig Rawlings - Forest Business Network Picture: Tom Waddell What is Restoration  Forestry? The term “restoration forestry” is thrown around quite a bit these days. While it’s used broadly, there doesn’t seem to be any quintessential definition for it, let...

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune The Forest Reserves, now called national forests, were initially set aside from the public domain to correct the devastation that was occurring to these high-mountain watersheds. Excessive logging, devastating wildfires and unregulated...

Source: Denver Post Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Forest Service boldly announced a goal of eradicating hazardously overgrown forests nationwide by 2015. That goal is long gone. The threat to Colorado homes in 2013, it now appears, will likely be as high as ever. Forest...

Source - USDA Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the USDA's strategy to promote the use of wood as a green building material. At an event this evening to launch the International Year of the Forest, Secretary Vilsack will lay out a three-part plan addressing...

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...