wild fire

On Tuesday the Department of Agriculture announced a comprehensive response to the nation’s growing wildfire crisis. The effort is called “Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s Forests.” The strategy o ...

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

Late last week, a group of Senators announced the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Act of 2021. The legislation would formally authorize the Department of Agriculture’s Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership Initiative to better support forest and grassland restoration projects across public and private land, including NE Washington. The lawma ...

According to the state Department of Natural Resources, forests across Washington continue to face an array of challenges. According to the state’s latest Forest Health Highlights Report, many of those challenges have been brought on by an increasingly dry climate as well as past forest management practices. T ...

Oregon lawmakers are looking at several bills that could change the way the state fights wildfires, and how it tries to prevent them.  Plans under review include an effort to restore forest health through thinning, removing brush and small trees, and increasing prescribed burns.  ...

Last week, the House passed legislation aimed at reversing the rising fire danger in the nation’s forests and grasslands.  The Resilient Forest Act, passed on a 232-188 vote, and would increase timber harvests.  It also looks to end the practice of fire borrowing, where the U.S. Forest Service ra...