by Web Editor | Sep 12, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) Governing Board recently approved over $2 million in grants for projects that will reduce wildfire risk and restore forest and watershed health in the Sierra Nevada region. Funding for these projects comes from Proposition 1, The...
by Web Editor | May 27, 2016 | News, News/PR
An agreement gained by Gov. Scott Walker’s administration to facilitate forestry management and watershed work in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest is being put into action with the first timber cut and salvage operation now underway in the 1.5 million-acre...
by Web Editor | Jan 22, 2016 | News, News/PR
Drive near the Washington state Capitol Campus in Olympia this month and you’ll see a banner proclaiming that “Sustainable Forestry Started Here.” What does that mean? Seventy-five years ago, the first certified tree farm in North America was established on the...
by Web Editor | Nov 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
Oregon Expands Streamside No-Logging Zones The Oregon Board of Forestry voted in early November to double the no-logging buffer zone along small- and medium-sized streams in western Oregon in response to a lawsuit that state forestry regulations don’t do enough...
by Web Editor | Feb 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have disapproved the state of Oregon’s coastal nonpoint pollution control program because it does not sufficiently protect salmon streams and landslide-prone...