by Web Editor | May 26, 2017 | News, News/PR
Eight years passed while a diverse group of Missoula, Montana, residents worked their way through the controversies to find compromise. And now the 13,000-acre Marshall Woods Restoration Project is finally approved and starting to take shape. The to-do list includes...
by Web Editor | Sep 19, 2016 | News, News/PR
State foresters would have more ways to help manage federal and private forests under a bipartisan proposal authored by senators Steve Daines and Amy Klobuchar. Daines, R-Mont., and Klobuchar, D-Minn., introduced the Environmental and Economic Benefits Restoration Act...
by Web Editor | Aug 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
A Bitterroot National Forest timber thinning project that’s been in the works for nearly five years has gone up in smoke as a result of the Roaring Lion fire. The Westside Collaborative Vegetation Management Project proposed to thin about five miles of national forest...
by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Bitterroot National Forest moved forward this week on the last two projects to reduce hazardous fuels in the urban/wildland interface along nearly all of the western edge of the Bitterroot Valley. Forest Service Supervisor Julie King approved the Como Forest...
by Web Editor | Mar 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is providing close to one million dollars in state funding to Forest Service projects in Montana, to increase the pace and scale of efforts to improve forest health and watershed health. State investments...