by Web Editor | Nov 7, 2018 | News, News/PR
This summer, California experienced its largest fire in state history—the latest disaster in a growing trend towards hotter, larger, and more destructive fires. Without urgent action, wildfires will be even deadlier and costlier in years to come. The Forest Resilience...
by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2018 | News, News/PR
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has awarded its first Good Neighbor Authority restoration timber harvest sale. Colville-based Vaagen Brothers Timber Company was the successful bidder Tuesday for a project that will reduce hazardous timber...
by Web Editor | Jan 8, 2018 | News, News/PR
Mexican spotted owls apparently love the canyons and pockets of big old trees on the watershed of the C.C. Cragin Reservoir — Payson’s crucial future water supply. The dozens of potential nesting territories for these small, deep-forest-loving owls has complicated and...
by Web Editor | Aug 18, 2017 | News, News/PR
For the next four and a half months, the sounds of feller-bunchers, processors and log trucks will be a common one around the lower Dry Lake Hills and the base of Mount Elden. This week, loggers are getting into full swing on the thinning of 642 acres of forest north...
by Web Editor | Apr 19, 2017 | News, News/PR
It was risky, Paul Summerfelt concedes, to ask voters for an unprecedented $10 million bond issue for forest and watershed restoration. But the greater risk was to do nothing – to wait for the inevitable wildfire that damaged, or destroyed, the city of Flagstaff’s...