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Don’t forget to tune into the A&E channel tomorrow (8/25/2012) and watch Sell This House: Extreme. 9:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, they will be installing our Beetle Killed Pine flooring. The home is located in Concord, MA Special thanks to A&E for choosing our eco-friendly beetle kill pine flooring. Click here for more info on […]
Source: High CountryNews I was wandering around Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) last week, absorbing the cooling sight of snowfields and the 30-degree temperature drop earned by more than doubling my elevation from Boulder. On my way along Trail Ridge Road, I stopped at the Farview Curve overlook on the west side of the park, […]
Question: What lake in Montana is the 5th largest man-made lake in the U.S. and has more shoreline than the state of California; totaling 1520 miles? Answer: Fort Peck Lake
Source: kurl8.com KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The manager of the Swan River State Forest in northwestern Montana says an attempt to put together a timber salvage is being made for 1.5 million board feet from various types of trees blown down during a severe storm last month. Dan Roberson tells the Daily Inter Lake (http://bit.ly/QmURzT […]
Source: OPB News The U.S. Forest Service has made forest thinning one of its top priorities, particularly in fire-prone and unhealthy dry forests. But environmental groups say dense Douglas fir plantations on the wet side of the Cascades need to be thinned too. And that could help increase the lumber supply. On a steep slope in […]
Here is short little video produced by the Danish Wood Initiative that we feel accurately describes the importance of using wood products and sustainable forestry.
Question: What man-made construction was featured on the cover of the first issue of “Life” magazine in November 1936? Answer: Fort Peck Dam
Source: Missoulian CONDON – Swan Lake District Ranger Rich Kehr stared with disbelief at a healthy, restored wetland and uttered what would become a familiar refrain on a recent sun-soaked afternoon in the Swan Valley. “Normally, we just wouldn’t have any money to do this,” he said. For the past 2 1/2 years, an unlikely […]
Question: What is the largest city in Montana with a population of only 100,000? Answer: Billings
Source: Natural Resources Canada OTTAWA — Forest sector officials from Canada and the U.S. gathered over the past two days in Washington, at the first-ever summit on forest health, to advance scientific co-operation on shared challenges. Officials identified research areas in which collaboration and knowledge exchange could enable both countries to better protect the health […]
The mountain pine beetle has methodically taken over large swaths of forest from Mexico to British Columbia. Estimates indicate the tiny rice-sized beetle attacked 3.8 million acres of forest in 2011 and it is now affecting forest fire rates. In recent years, entrepreneurial wood products companies have rolled out a bevy of “beetle-kill” hardwood products, […]
Question: What author once wrote, “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing”? Answer: Norman Maclean in A River Runs Through It.
Our list of beetle kill wood products keeps growing! Eco friendly consumers all over the country have joined the recent craze of beautiful blue stain pine as a result of the mountain pine beetle. Millions of acres across the Rocky Mountains have been devastated, at Sustainable Lumber we salvage these beetle killed trees and supply clients all over […]
Source: Portland Tribune Plan could create 2700 timber jobs Regional forest conservation groups have released a new study showing how logging volume on federal lands in the Northwest could grow 44 percent if certain ecological criteria are followed. The report, Ecologically Appropriate Restoration Thinning in the Northwest Forest Plan Area, projects that annual timber cutting […]
Question: The most vertical feet of skiing in the nation are found in what ski area? Answer: Big Sky, with 4180 feet