by Web Editor | Jan 19, 2018 | News, News/PR
700,000 acres of Montana national forests burned in this summer’s wildfires. The Montana Wood Products Association (MWPA) is planning to salvage about 30,000 of those acres, MWPA’s executive director Julia Altemus told hundreds of people Tuesday. The...
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 | 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...
by Web Editor | Oct 6, 2017 | News, News/PR
Cool, damp weather has brought relief from wildfires in the northwestern U.S., northern Idaho and western Montana, but the fall fire season is getting underway in Southern California, forecasters said Sunday. The risk of big wildfires will be above average for...
by Web Editor | Sep 11, 2017 | News, News/PR
As concerns grow over the looming threat of another powerful hurricane churning toward the southern states, members of Congress from the Pacific Northwest have urged their colleagues to turn their attention to the devastation other natural disasters have inflicted on...