Month: April 2018

A new study forecasts that softwood lumber consumption in the US will reach an all-time high by 2030. As a consequence, there are likely to […]

Starting on May 5th, municipalities from coast to coast to coast will join a national effort to reduce wildfire risk to local homes and environments in […]

In response to numerous brush fires around the state over the weekend and dangerous wildfire conditions, Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday declared a state of […]

Oregon’s Department of Forestry on Wednesday encouraged tree and forest owners to watch for continuing drought symptoms like dead tops, dead branches, thinning canopies and stressed […]

For about 15 years, the state’s most destructive forest insect has been lying low in South Carolina. But damage caused by recent droughts, storms and […]

Colorado wildfire officials are bracing for an active season. That includes the recent human-sparked 117 Wildfire in El Paso County, which destroyed as many as 23 homes […]

Despite the fires that burned 1,276,456 acres of Montana last year, more tourists came to Big Sky County in 2017 than the year before — and […]

Thinning, mowing, and prescribed burning in the area helped reduce the intensity and duration of a portion of the Milli fire, making it easier to […]

Forests know no jurisdictional bounds. Insects, fire, and disease spread quickly without a thought to who has authority to stop them. So to be successful, […]