by Web Editor | Jul 18, 2018 | News, News/PR
It took nine chops for Aaron Klug to cut his way through a tree trunk as thick as his own leg. His results weren’t due to his physical condition (which was impressive, thanks for asking), but to his efficiency. As Alpine Physical Therapy therapist Jess Kehoe put it,...
by Web Editor | Sep 19, 2016 | News, News/PR
State foresters would have more ways to help manage federal and private forests under a bipartisan proposal authored by senators Steve Daines and Amy Klobuchar. Daines, R-Mont., and Klobuchar, D-Minn., introduced the Environmental and Economic Benefits Restoration Act...
by Web Editor | Aug 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
A Bitterroot National Forest timber thinning project that’s been in the works for nearly five years has gone up in smoke as a result of the Roaring Lion fire. The Westside Collaborative Vegetation Management Project proposed to thin about five miles of national forest...
by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Bitterroot National Forest moved forward this week on the last two projects to reduce hazardous fuels in the urban/wildland interface along nearly all of the western edge of the Bitterroot Valley. Forest Service Supervisor Julie King approved the Como Forest...
by Web Editor | Sep 30, 2013 | News, News/PR
Politics aside, a logging bill now halfway through Congress would transform the Montana logging industry from a trickle to a torrent. The Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act envisions a six-fold increase in timber harvest from Montana’s nine national...
