by Web Editor | Aug 17, 2018 | News, News/PR
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 Thursday that the U.S. Forest...
by Web Editor | Jan 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
700,000 acres of Montana national forests burned in this summer’s wildfires. The Montana Wood Products Association (MWPA) is planning to salvage about 30,000 of those acres, MWPA’s executive director Julia Altemus told hundreds of people Tuesday. The...
by Web Editor | Nov 3, 2017 | News, News/PR
Halloween is a great time to tell scary stories. I have one to tell you, about millions upon millions of gray ghosts blackened by fire, ravaged by insects and disease, or dead from lack of water. These are Oregon’s “zombie trees.” According to an analysis commissioned...
by Web Editor | Sep 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
The Interior Department is heating up its war on costly and deadly wildfires in the West, junking policies of leaving forests alone and letting piles of dead wood lay to fuel more fires. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said letting nature take its course is costing too...