by Web Editor | Apr 20, 2018 | News, News/PR
Wildfires that have killed two people in western Oklahoma are nearing conditions not seen in at least a decade because of the mixture of high temperatures, low humidity and heavy winds, the National Weather Service said Monday. Weather service meteorologist Doug...
by Web Editor | Jan 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
The mountain pine beetle is native to Montana. It usually does not cause too much trouble, but an unseasonably warm winter 10 years ago allowed the beetle population to explode, which caused an epidemic never before seen in the area. “Sixty percent of that land...
by Web Editor | Dec 13, 2017 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service announced that an additional 27 million trees, mostly conifers, died throughout California since November 2016, bringing the total number of trees that have died due to drought and bark beetles to an historic 129 million on 8.9 million acres....
by Web Editor | Jan 6, 2017 | News, News/PR
Restoration and recovery work started Monday in the area damaged by last year’s massive Pioneer Fire, and will likely continue for the two weeks, according to forest officials. The Pine Flats hazard timber sale was awarded to the Boise Cascade Company, after it...
by Web Editor | Nov 30, 2016 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102...