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 | Aug 23, 2017 | News, News/PR
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Tony Tooke will serve as the new chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Tooke has worked for the Forest Service since he was 18 and currently is the regional forester for the Southern Region. Tooke is replacing Tom...
by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2016 | News, News/PR
Montana Governor Steve Bullock signed an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service on Monday for the state to play a bigger role in forest management on federal lands, which officials say will speed up backlogged logging projects. Forest management and the declining...
by Web Editor | Jan 25, 2013 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has abandoned a proposal to merge the Bridger-Teton and Caribou-Targhee national forests. A report prepared for acting Regional Forester Marlene Finley found that a joint forest wouldn’t save enough money and would compromise management and the...