by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2018 | News, News/PR
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 hazardous timber...
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 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Six former chiefs of the Forest Service have written leaders of the U.S. House and Senate expressing the urgent need to establish a new method of funding wildland firefighting. The Forest Service and Department of Interior, they said, are alone among federal agencies...
by Web Editor | Nov 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
Sawmills and pulp mills in the US Northwest have been struggling to build log inventories for the winter season because of the unusually long fire season this year, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. Increased competition for small-diameter logs in 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...