“If we can follow the three-legged stool, we can open up all kinds of opportunities for managing the land,” Nickerson said. “Grazing is at the top, and I’ve had a difficult time over the years convincing my bosses in a…
“Time and again, we see vivid boundaries between the young, healthy, growing forests managed by state, local, and private landholders, and the choked, dying, or burned federal forests,” McClintock said. “The laws of the past 45 years have not only…
Early in the Obama Administration, for instance, the government suddenly had $1 trillion for “shovel-ready” projects, and pumped $1 billion into the Forest Service to create jobs by restoring healthy forests. But the agency absorbed most of it in-house, and…
The forestry "double-hitter" is that trees harvested to be crafted into locally produced furniture are replaced with more trees. They grow quickly in renewed sunlight, storing carbon by removing it from the atmosphere, a highly preferable situation. James Smith Sentinel…
Weyerhaeuser closing Weyerhaeuser announced in late June that it would close its plywood and lumber mills, citing a shortage of logs. By KATHERYN HOUGHTON as published by Daily Inter Lake Hours after Weyerhaeuser Co. officials told plywood workers the…