by Web Editor | May 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
With a major environmental analysis completed and summer weather on the horizon, the time is ripe for thinning to gear up on the largest forest restoration project in the country. In the coming year, the Forest Service is set to open up more than 41,000 acres for...
by Web Editor | Mar 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving $37 million dollars to South Dakota so a number of forest districts in the country can be thinned, including one district in the Black Hills. Sixty-five hundred acres in the Hell Canyon Ranger District of the Black Hills...
by Web Editor | Nov 24, 2014 | News, News/PR
After almost four years of work, the U.S. Forest Service has released its final plan for restoration work on almost 600,000 acres of northern Arizona forests. It is believed to be the largest single restoration project in the nation. The Forest Service’s plan states...
by Web Editor | Sep 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service is rebooting its largest-ever forest restoration project, handing the contract for thinning northern Arizona pines to a new company after the original contractor failed to finance a mill or ramp up cutting in its first 16 months on the job....
by Web Editor | Jul 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
Amid fresh furor, the U.S. Forest Service is considering letting a troubled timber company transfer the biggest forest restoration project in history. The Forest Service announced on Monday that it has received a request from Pioneer Forest Products to transfer the...