by Web Editor | Sep 7, 2016 | News, News/PR
Covering more than one-third of the United States, our forests are the cornerstone of American industry, infrastructure, health and well-being. Nowadays, America’s trees and forests are under attack; threats include catastrophic wildfire, forests being broken into...
by Web Editor | Feb 24, 2016 | News, News/PR
Forests nationwide are feeling the heat from increasing drought and climate change, according to a new study by scientists from 14 research institutions. “Over the last two decades, warming temperatures and variable precipitation have increased the severity of...
by Web Editor | Jan 8, 2016 | News, News/PR
There are few things Democrats and Republicans in Washington can agree upon. One is that the western wildfire problem has gotten out of control. From the overwhelming firefighting costs to the amount of acres at high fire risk due to challenges of drought, insects and...
by Web Editor | Jul 14, 2014 | News, News/PR
Firefighters made progress Sunday battling a large Washington wildfire that has burned thousands of acres of mountain wilderness. The wildfire — the largest of numerous ones burning in the West — started July 8 in Mills Canyon in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest,...
by Web Editor | Jun 25, 2014 | News, News/PR
Eric Roussel and colleagues were working down in the Sweetwater Range a few months back when they noticed something unusual. The Nevada Division of Forestry crew, conducting a fuels reduction project in a thick stand of pinyon-juniper, felled trees that normally...