Author: rpalma
Source: foxnews.com DENVER – Colorado’s beetle-infested forests are peppered with an estimated 834 million standing dead trees that threaten to worsen wildfires and degrade vital water supplies that flow from mountains, officials said Wednesday. Roughly one in every 14 standing trees in the state’s forests is dead, with the total up 30 percent in seven […]
Source: The Forest Blog By Russ Vaagen In the last blog post, I didn’t get a good chance to wrap the story of recreation and forest management together as well as I should have. I don’t believe that every acre should be managed and I don’t think every acre should be thinned. Different management techniques […]
Source: The Forest Blog By Russ Vaagen For those of us in forest management, outdoor recreation and managing our forests go hand in hand. I don’t know that it is seen the same way by outdoor recreation enthusiasts, but it should. When you get down to the interests of both, the similarities are striking in […]
Source: The Forest Blog By Russ Vaagen In a recent visit to EPCOT in Orlando Florida, I had the pleasure of watching “The American Adventure.” It’s a look back at how the United States was formed and the influences that got us to where we are today. Everything Disney is amazing and this show is […]
Source: Proud Green Building 3 Design, Construction Trends for 2017 With 2017 well underway, design and construction professionals have their sights set on the year ahead. And while it experienced mostly flat growth in 2016, the construction industry is projected to grow in 2017, with an estimated 5 percent increase in construction starts – for […]