by Web Editor | Nov 29, 2017 | News, News/PR
Grown to the height of a high-rise on northwestern Montana’s remote Kootenai National Forest, the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree reached its destination Monday after a 3,460-mile journey across the country. Trucker Larry Spiekermeier made his delivery before dawn, after...
by Web Editor | Dec 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
Three new players have joined in the lawsuit between the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the United States Forest Service over the future of the East Reservoir timber sale. Lincoln County and the Kootenai Forest Stakeholders Coalition have officially joined the suit...
by Web Editor | May 15, 2015 | News, News/PR
A Rexford-based logger is seeking $2.5 million in damages from the U.S. Forest Service for what a federal court in February deemed the wrongful termination of his logging contract in the Kootenai National Forest. On April 29, a federal appeals court ordered the U.S....
by Web Editor | Jan 28, 2015 | News, News/PR
America is a nation of laws, but that does not mean the courtroom is necessarily the best place to resolve problems. Sometimes, the best place to settle differences is out in the fresh air, in the scent of pines and the sound of the breeze overhead. The people of...
by Web Editor | Dec 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
Lincoln County officials and representatives of the timber industry are cautiously optimistic about the prospect of additional logging activity after the Kootenai National Forest approved the sale of roughly 39 million board-feet of timber northeast of Libby. Kootenai...