This summer, California experienced its largest fire in state history—the latest disaster in a growing trend towards hotter, larger, and more destructive fires. Without urgent action, wildfires will be even deadlier and costlier in years…
From: Timber Harvesting Editors Hurricane Michael made landfall October 10 near Mexico Beach, Fla., then moved on across parts of Alabama and into Georgia, the Carolinas and southeastern Virginia. Packing 155 MPH sustained winds, Michael…
New York State hosted the first-ever Forestry and Wood Products Summit Thursday in Binghamton. At the Broome County Regional Farmers Market, state and local officials met with key players in the forestry industry to discuss…
Acadia Insurance, a W. R. Berkley company, recently announced that it will pay more than $1.4 million in premium dividends to eligible policyholder members of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine Safety Group. Since 1999,…
Maine’s only post-secondary mechanized logging training program will graduate its second class, of eight students, later this week. Friday’s commencement ceremony will take place in the woods southeast of Ashland, where the group spent weeks…
An explosive wildfire has nearly tripled in size overnight in Northern California and prompted closure of a major freeway, just weeks after a nearby blaze that left neighborhoods in ruins and killed eight people, officials…
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has awarded its first Good Neighbor Authority restoration timber harvest sale. Colville-based Vaagen Brothers Timber Company was the successful bidder Tuesday for a project that will reduce…
Faced with the worst summer fire season in 10 years, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing broad new changes to California’s logging rules that would allow landowners to cut larger trees and build temporary roads without…
The Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) is an ongoing collaborative, landscape-scale initiative designed to restore 2.4 million acres of fire-adapted ecosystems in the Apache-Sitgreaves, Tonto, Coconino, and Kaibab National Forests. Reducing destructive wildfires is one…
Nearly 5,000 truckloads of timber that were salvaged from December’s Legion Lake Fire in Custer State Park have since been processed into boards, wall paneling, frames for doors and windows, and other wood products. And…
The Trump Administration announced a new policy to fight wildfires, doubling down on its assertion that the best response is better forest management rather than focusing on climate change. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said…
Washington residents have reported uncharacteristically high numbers of dead and dying Douglas Fir trees to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) this spring and summer. The culprits: drought and bark beetles. The native…