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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...