Category: Forest Products Industry related
Source: Treesource by Greg M. Peters In 2013, Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Sprajc hacked his way through a remote jungle on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The modern-day Indiana Jones was on the trail of a huge discovery: a lost Mayan city obscured by centuries of nearly impenetrable forest. It wasn’t the first ancient city unearthed from the jungle: Sprajc found […]
Source: Missoulian by KAREN WICKERSHAM and BRIDGET JOHNSON Montana is on fire, we’ve been breathing smoke for months, and it’s human nature to look for someone or something to blame, such as environmentalists or the U.S. Forest Service. But the fact is we can’t log our way out, we can’t fight our way out, we can […]
Source: Montana Standard – DAVE ATKINS and 11 co-signers Forest Fuel.Reduction Over the years, occasional guest columns have argued incorrectly that fuel treatments in our forests don’t affect wildfires. George Wuerthner’s column of Wednesday, Aug. 2, is among the most recent and misleading. We the undersigned are compelled to provide a more thorough and nuanced […]
Source: Capital Press For many Western city dwellers, wildfires just got personal. For those who had not witnessed the blast-furnace heat and the eye-stinging smoke of a wildfire along with the mass destruction of timber, homes, businesses and wildlife, last week was a learning experience. Nearly every corner of the West was on fire. From […]
Source: Treesource by Sherry Devlin Are the 2017 wildfire season and its long, miserable, smoke-choked days the new normal? University of Montana journalism professor Joe Eaton recently sat down with UM fire ecology professor Philip Higuera to explore the reasons why the West is burning up this summer. The resulting Q&A, published Sept. 11 by City […]
Source: americanforests.org By Melanie Friedel, American Forests Do you know where your water comes from? Well, you’re about to. There is a long process every drop of water endures before it reaches our faucets, and we can thank forests for much of that process. Trees work as water filtration systems, intercepting, absorbing and purifying the […]
Source: Petapixel by Joel Wolfson I was committed to burning my property. I know this sounds a bit crazy but we’re talking about a prescribed burn. My wife researched programs in our area for homeowners to reduce fire hazards. In our area, the firefighters are cross-trained for both wildland and structure fires so they are perfectly […]
Source: The Forest Blog by Russ Vaagen In Northeast Washington on August 1st, 2017 we woke up to smoke from wildfires. It wasn’t as thick here as it was in other areas, but it was bad at varying levels throughout the month. Now that September has started it feels like August was clear. The smoke […]
Source: Communities for Healthy Forests What happens after the fire is out? Are burn scars rehabilitated and replanted? The answer may surprise you. Find out more in the video and join the collective voice for education and forest restoration at: facebook.com/communitiesforhealthyforests
Source: Treesource by Georgia Institute of Technology Naturally burning timber and brush launch what is called fine particulate into the air at a rate three times as high as levels noted in emissions inventories at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new study. The microscopic specks that form aerosols are a hazard to human health, […]
Been a rough Summer in Montana. Forest Fires have ravaged our backyards since July. Not many people in the U.S. know since it hasn’t received much coverage in the news. If the U.S. Forest Service doesn’t start managing their forests, this will become the new norm. This video sums up our Summer.
Source: Treesource by Paul Barnum/Oregon Forest Resources Institute I don’t know about you, but the August incursion of smoke from wildfires burning in British Columbia gave me a sore throat and a headache. I felt bad for children, the elderly and people with breathing issues. Now come new studies saying things will probably get worse. Researchers at […]
Source: Healthy Forests.org Note: This column by Ed Regan originally appeared in the Independent-Record. Recent wildfires on the Lewis and Clark National Forests are illustrating the consequences of the “Cottonwood” case that is halting forest health projects throughout Montana. Once again the case comes at the expense of our forests, wildlife and.communities. Both the Park Creek […]
Source: Montana Public Radio Environmental conservation groups are suing to block a plan to log, thin, and prescription-burn about 2,900 acres in the Flathead National Forest. The groups say it violates federal.laws. The Beaver Creek Project borders Lindbergh Lake and the Mission Mountain Wilderness. Rich Kehr, the Flathead Forest’s Swan Lake District Ranger, says the biggest […]
My heart is broken for Montana. I am currently evacuated from my home town of Seeley Lake. Even without the threat of fire burning my home, I wake up daily to smoke so thick it chokes. Hazardous levels for health start at 150 ppm. We have daily awoken to numbers never before charted. 850, 950,1100. […]