by Web Editor | Mar 28, 2018 | News, News/PR
“Do you want to see video of my first drone crash?” I was asked as loggers and foresters filed out of the room, headed home. Last week’s FRA Forest Forum, a monthly dinner held near Bangor, Maine, brought speakers on mapping and drones, and we learned how these...
by Web Editor | Jul 26, 2017 | News, News/PR
A pioneering forest restoration management program has melded leading edge science and community consensus to protect a volatile and highly visible swath of Central Oregon’s public lands from the mounting threats of climate change and a catastrophic Central Oregon...
by Web Editor | Jun 7, 2017 | News, News/PR
A new collaborative approach hopes to show responsible environmental stewardship can boost the health of Washington’s forests and the state’s regional economies. Efforts to work together toward the common goal of improving the forest trace back to the formation of the...
by Web Editor | Apr 3, 2017 | News, News/PR
After witnessing his youngest son, Cole, get crushed to death in a 2014 logging accident in Washington state, Tim Bostwick is convinced the industry is unsafe for teens. “He was barely just 18 and I got him the job – that’s something I’ve got to live with the rest of...
by Web Editor | Mar 13, 2017 | News, News/PR
Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin has co-sponsored a bill that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work in logging operations under parental supervision. The Future Logging Career Act, which Poliquin introduced in partnership with Republican U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador...
