Forest Managment

As the state of Idaho’s population increases, it’s the cities that see the most growth, and many of these people are not familiar with the Ag industry.  Cameron Mulrony, Executive Vice President of the Idaho Cattle Association says it’s important to share with these new Idahoans, and anyone not connected to the farming industry, the important role the cattle sector plays in the Gem state.   “And j

According to Oregon lawmakers, the new federal infrastructure package will fund forest management and wildfire resiliency, all while improving access to clean drinking water, expand broadband and pay for a host of other projects. During President Biden’s visit to the Beaver state last week, Oregon Governor Kate Brown said historically underserved communities struggle to access these basic needs.

As our Northwest Farm Credit Services quarterly commodity snapshot series hit the home stretch, today, we look at the forestry, nursery, and fisher industries. Bill Perry, Vice President at NWFC said their 12-month outlook foresees fisheries being profitable ...

Scientists tell us that we cannot stop wildfires from happening, "But what we can do is begin the process of reducing the catastrophic nature of these fires," noted Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. He recently announced a ten year plan to do more thinning out of forests, removing dead trees and brush, improving the health of forests and making communities near them safer ...

According to a conservation group, the U.S. Forest Service violated numerous environmental laws in approving a 105-square-mile logging and restoration project outside of the town of Cascade. The Idaho Conservation League filed a lawsuit last week that claims the Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act and other laws in approving the 20-year Sage Hen Project in the Boise National Forest

Washington Representatives Dan Newhouse, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Kim Schrier are reaching out to federal officials in an attempt to bring attention to the level of destruction caused by massive wildfires in the state. “The three of us sent an invitation to the Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, as well as the Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland," Newhouse said. "We ... Read M

As the 2021 wildfire season rages on, the U.S. Forest Service announced a new Chief. Randy Moore said the 2021 wildfire season is already a bad one with over 60 major blazes raging with hundreds of other smaller fires keeping crew busy nationwide ...

As fires continue to burn up and down the west coast, members of the House Ag Committee are looking at what can be done to help prevent massive fires into the future. Many of those lawmakers agreed with Henry Schienebeck with the American Loggers Council ...

On Thursday, Idaho Senator Jim Risch spoke out against the Biden Administration’s nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning. Risch said before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that a good agency, such as BLM and the people that work there deserve better than the President’s nominee. Ris ...

Forest Health took center state at a Senate Ag committee hearing last week. Joe Fox is President of the National Association of State Foresters. "To maintain our forests as carbon sinks we can't let them be destroyed by out of control wildfires we must reduce wildfire fuel loads in our forests ...