by Web Editor | Nov 27, 2018 | News, News/PR
Timber sale levels on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest reached 128.7 million board feet in fiscal year 2018, a level of sales not seen since the early 1990s. The 2018 fiscal year was also the sixth year in a row timber sales have increased in the forest. In...
by Web Editor | Mar 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
Matt Dallman guided his four-wheel drive truck up a narrow, snow-covered road in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Forest County. Dallman, the director of conservation for the Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin, pointed to a cluster or stand of red pines, which...
by Web Editor | May 27, 2016 | News, News/PR
An agreement gained by Gov. Scott Walker’s administration to facilitate forestry management and watershed work in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is being put into action with the first timber cut and salvage operation now underway in the 1.5 million-acre...
by Web Editor | Jul 7, 2014 | News, News/PR
More hardwood was thinned from Wisconsin’s 1.5 million acre Northwoods last year than in recent memory, but advocates say more could be done to manage the timber and help Wisconsin’s struggling northern economy. The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest had...
by Web Editor | Dec 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
At the Governor’s Forestry Economic Summit Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker announced a new timber harvesting initiative in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest – an effort he said that would help revitalize the state’s timber industry and help maintain/create hundreds...