Category: Forest Products Industry related
Source: Missoulian “When there’s a crisis,” retired University of Montana choral professor Gary Funk observed, “sometimes the universe conspires to bring good ideas out.” That’s how the aftershocks of the 2010 Haiti earthquake may ripple across time and space to shake up western Montana’s timber industry. After two years of work, Funk and a group […]
Source: Missoulian A recently study should put to rest the notion that green lodgepole pine needles burn as fast as red ones. But more than that, Matt Jolly said, the study could help open firefighters’ eyes to the dangers lurking in mountain pine beetle-infested forests where the trees still look to be alive and doing […]
Source: Flathead Beacon Deep in northwestern Montana near the Idaho border, an expansive 28,000-acre conservation easement proposal is bringing together a diverse group of interests, with conservationists, loggers, wildlife managers and outdoor enthusiasts discovering they can all agree on a common vision: protecting working forestland from development while keeping it open to public recreation. Thanks […]
Source: Missoulian The U.S. Forest Service wants to speed up work on national forests, for both timber production and forest health. “Collaboration is most effective in getting forests managed in a proper way,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a conference call on Thursday. “We want to move beyond the conflicts in the past that […]
Source: Billings Gazette As timber mill owners and managers in Montana, we’re disappointed that the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, a bill to create jobs for loggers and mill workers, was prevented from passing in Congress last week. Hundreds of workers in our mills, along with hundreds of independent contractors and vendors we work with, all […]
Source: KXLH.com The City of Helena has received another significant grant to continue cleaning up the dead and dying pine beetle trees scattered along the backdrop of the city. Brad Langsather heads up the pine beetle restoration projects for the City of Helena. He says the newest project will entail the area south of […]
Source: Public News Service MISSOULA, Mont. – About 240 new jobs, 11,000 acres of wildlife habitat restored, and thousands of cubic feet of commercial timber sold. These are some of the benefits tallied in a report on the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) on Montana’s Lolo, Flathead and Helena national forests in 2011. The […]
Source: Black Hills Pioneer NORTHERN HILLS — The fight against the mountain pine beetles isn’t hopeless, but we do have a steep hill to climb and not much time to reach the top, forest industry officials say. To get there, they say it’s time to decide what’s most important to us and can still be saved, […]
Source – RISI Forest certification programs must be more than simply a strict standard. Responsible forestry must account for the fact that, by anyone’s definition, forests are a source of economic and social health as well as environmental benefits. It is more than just a product label. Without a “big picture” approach, according to the […]
Source – Pyramid Mountain Lumber “A rumor can race around the world while the truth is just putting its shoes on.” — Mark Twain Myth: The early U.S. forest was a carpet of trees that extended from coast to coast. FACT: The pre-Columbian forest of 1600 covered less than half of the present-day U.S. […]
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Courtesy of: Forestry USA Forestry is bringing back forests. – Until the 1920s, forests were often logged and abandoned. Now, across the country an average of 1.7 billion seedlings are planted annually. That translates into six seedlings planted for every tree harvested. In addition, billions of additional seedlings are regenerated naturally. Forestry helps water quality. […]
Our locally harvested Montana dead standing timber is distributed across the globe. We have consistently received feedback about the amazing stability of our products, especially in humid climates. This prompted us to take a closer look at our wood under a microscope. We contacted Oregon State University College of Forestry and asked them to do […]
Salvage logging is the process of selective harvesting dead or diseased trees to improve the general health of a forest, especially in a protected growing areas. There as been some controversy in the past as to how salvage logging impacts the forest, but most of the controversy involves traditional mechanical logging methods. We are proud […]
Source: The Times Leader Photo compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos What do trees have to do with energy? Trees and other plants are energy. They are the ultimate collectors of solar energy, using the energy of the sun to produce food through photosynthesis. Plants jump-start the entire food chain with this energy, synthesizing carbon-based food by […]