by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Helena National Forest and the Lewis & Clark National Forest have shared staff and various processes for several years. Now, the two have merged into one forest. Bill Avey, supervisor of the new Helena – Lewis & Clark National Forest says the public...
by Web Editor | Nov 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Helena National Forest is proposing a timber and vegetation project across 25,000 acres of a 61,500-acre area in the Ten Mile drainage, with the goal of improving forest and stream health, including water quantity and quality for the city of Helena’s water supply...
by Web Editor | Nov 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
One season-ending event is another season-starting crisis, as Montana wildland firefighters and incident commanders leave the West’s forests for East Coast storm duty. “Sawyer teams are in high demand,” U.S. Forest Service spokesman Phil Salmon said of the communities...
by Web Editor | May 25, 2012 | News, News/PR
A day’s worth of logging took place in less than a second on a hillside above Hahn Creek. “This is the most enjoyable part of the job,” Helena National Forest lead blaster Don Senn said as he inspected the parallel lines of toppled trees. “The day goes quickly when...
by Web Editor | May 16, 2012 | News, News/PR
Paul Bunyan wouldn’t have known what to make of Gordon Ash’s little logging crew in the Pioneer Mountains last week. Instead of axes or saws, the U.S. Forest Service team went after trees with sticks of high explosive. “You’d calculate the proper amount of explosive,...