Author: rpalma
Source: Calaveras Enterprise For the first time in many years, loggers and conservation groups are working together and the results have been stunning, according to Katherine Evatt, president of the Pine Grove-based Foothill Conservancy. The Amador Calaveras Consensus Group has been working in the Stanislaus and Eldorado national forests on projects that are part of […]
Hand scraped flooring has been a very popular trend for the past 10 or so years. Will this trend continue? We’d love to hear your comments. As a flooring company we’re seeing an up tick with any textured flooring. Our most popular have been our hand scraped Douglas Fir and our circle sawn Douglas Fir. […]
Source: Billings Gazette RAPID CITY, S.D. — The Black Hills National Forest plans to use extensive commercial tree thinning to battle the mountain pine beetle as part of a $70 million plan that will take five to seven years to implement. The plan developed over more than a year will target 248,000 acres of vulnerable […]
Source: Pique You can’t miss it because the devastation runs as far as the eye can see. Driving between Merritt and Kelowna on Highway 97C in British Columbia’s southern interior, it is possible to feel a kind of terrible awe while passing mile after mile of rusty-coloured, dead pine forests. It is the work of […]
Source: CTV News Mountain Pine Beetles Contributing to Climate Change EDMONTON — Newly published research suggests mountain pine beetles have become so widespread that they’re not just benefiting from global warming, they’re starting to. contribute to it. “The effects of climate change cascade,” said Holly Maness, whose paper was published Sunday in the journal Nature […]