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Beetle-Kill Products Go Mainstream With Apple Accessories
The mountain pine beetle has methodically taken over large swaths of forest from Mexico to British Columbia. Estimates indicate the tiny rice-sized beetle attacked 3.8 million acres of forest in 2011 and it is now affecting forest fire rates. In recent years,...
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Question: What author once wrote, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing"? Answer: Norman Maclean in A River Runs Through It.
read moreExtensive line of beetle kill pine wood products
Our list of beetle kill wood products keeps growing! Eco friendly consumers all over the country have joined the recent craze of beautiful blue stain pine as a result of the mountain pine beetle. Millions of acres across the Rocky Mountains have been devastated, at...
read moreConservation groups outline how to boost timber cut without harming environment
Source: Portland Tribune Plan could create 2700 timber jobs Regional forest conservation groups have released a new study showing how logging volume on federal lands in the Northwest could grow 44 percent if certain ecological criteria are followed. The report,...
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Question: The most vertical feet of skiing in the nation are found in what ski area? Answer: Big Sky, with 4180 feet
read moreB.C. forest board says future timber supply at risk, raises alarm about restocking forests
Source: Winnipeg Free Press VICTORIA - British Columbia's independent forest practices watchdog says future timber supplies in the province are at stake and the Liberal government needs to get moving on management plans for pine beetle and fire damaged forests. A...
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Question: What town, with 150 inches of snow annually and 600 miles of groomed trails, bills itself as the "snowmobile capital of the world"? Answer: West Yellowstone
read moreScientists sorting out beetle-fire relationship
Source: Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Inside university laboratories and government research facilities across the country, scientists are playing with dozens of variables — mixing and matching and rearranging — to gain a better understanding of what makes...
read moreBitterroot National Forest tacks pheromone pouches to trees to combat beetles
Source: NBC Montana STEVENSVILLE, Mont. - The Forest Service is tacking verbenone patches to protect campground trees from Mountain Pine Beetles. Verbenone is a pheromone, or chemical, that tells beetles to go away. The beetles should be arriving in a couple weeks....
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Question: There are around 250 miles of streets in Butte and how many miles of underground mining tunnels? Answer: More than 2500
read moreAmendment to Attack the Pine Beetle Epidemic Clears U.S. Senate
Source: Senator Baucus (Washington, D.C.) – Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus secured a victory today for Montana forests as the U.S. Senate voted 77 to 22 in favor of his amendment to better address the bark beetle infestation. The plan is one of many Farm...
read moreWaldo Canyon is latest super fire; get used to them, expert says
Source: LA Times So-called super fires -- like the fire currently rampaging through the Colorado Springs area, spurring mass evacuations, destroying property and endangering lives -- are not going away. They will continue to flare up, not just around the U.S. but also...
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Question: How long can a Montana sagebrush plant live? Answer: 200 years
read moreMountain pine beetles on rise in Colorado
The mountain pine beetle is about a quarter-inch long, has a one-year life span, is native to North America and, if left unchecked, this little bugger can kill forests. That is the fear of forestry experts throughout Douglas and Elbert counties, who are keeping their...
read moreBaucus adds measures to farm bill to aid Montana forest industry
Source: Missoulian U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., added several measures to help the state’s forestry industry to the 2012 farm bill on Thursday. They include a measure providing $100 million to the U.S. Forest Service for combating bark beetle outbreaks and permanent...
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