Author: rpalma
Source: Ravalli Republic To parody yet another song: ‘where have all the flower’s gone?’ by Pete Seeger; ‘where have all the sawmills gone?’ Most Montana wood products manufacturers are geared to supply the U.S. housing market. U.S. housing starts were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 523,000 units in April, 10.6 percent below the […]
Source: Missoula Independent Guarding the Burn – The Great Burn of.1910 Bob Clark first glimpsed it a decade ago from the summit of Grave Peak, in eastern Idaho. Looking north, he saw a stretch of jagged forestland with snowcapped peaks, granite cliffs and grand vistas—and asked himself, “What the hell is.that?” He was looking at […]
Source: West Yellowstone News It may not make sense to the casual passerby. As a matter of fact, it might even seem wrong. But for many people who have lived in the rural Rocky Mountains, the project work going on north of West Yellowstone in Gallatin National Forest lands is comforting. Gallatin Forest officials have […]
Source: Eco-Home In what could be a major step toward quieting the wood-certification dispute, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has proposed giving credit under its LEED program to several currently unrecognized wood-certification groups for at least helping bring more transparency to green construction efforts. USGBC’s Pilot Credit for Certified Products unveiled earlier this month […]
Source – Baucus.senate.gov Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus is leading a bipartisan effort to urge the federal government to take steps to use American-grown timber in new construction for government office buildings. In a letter to the head of the General Services Administration, Baucus urged the GSA to rethink a practice that hurts Montana […]