by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Feb 10, 2021 | News
When the Woodhead Fire broke out near Cambridge, Id. in early September and moved toward the town of Council, state forestry officials began evaluating and analyzing salvage operations for the timber damaged by the nearly 100,000 acre fire before it was even put out....
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Jan 13, 2020 | News
Contractors in central Idaho are working two salvage timber sales totaling almost 2,000 acres filled with trees damaged by the Douglas-fir tussock moth infestation in the Packer John State Forest. The Idaho Department of Lands sold the dead and dying timber in two...
by Web Editor | Jun 8, 2018 | News, News/PR
Get ready for another summer of destructive wildfires across much of the country. Forecasters at the National Interagency Fire Center are predicting that warmer and drier-than-normal conditions have put large portions of the Western United States at above-average risk...
by Web Editor | Apr 4, 2018 | News, News/PR
Forests know no jurisdictional bounds. Insects, fire, and disease spread quickly without a thought to who has authority to stop them. So to be successful, efforts to manage forest health, and its impacts on people and critters, can’t focus on who owns what. That’s...
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...