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 23, 2018 | News, News/PR
The $1.3 trillion spending bill headed for a vote in Congress this week includes a bipartisan measure creating a disaster fund to help fight the wildfires that have swept Western states in recent years. Fundamentally changing how the U.S. Forest Service and other...
by Web Editor | Jan 3, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recently highlighted some of the agency’s accomplishments during 2017 to improve the productivity, uses, and sustainability of national forests and grasslands. “Our accomplishments this year...
by Web Editor | Nov 30, 2016 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102...
by Web Editor | Sep 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
This year’s horrific wildfire season in the West is spurring Congress to move toward providing $700 million in emergency disaster aid to the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies facing rapidly rising firefighting costs. The emergency aid – contained in...