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A federal judge on Monday said a plan to log up to 2,500 acres to reduce forest fire dangers in the Gallatin National Forest can proceed, but blocked the construction of any new logging roads across prime grizzly bear habitat. The Forest Service's fuels reduction project south of Big Timber is designed to slow major fires and give people a chance to flee along the area's sole evacuation route. Forest Service ranger said the ruling would affect only a small number of acres and not hamper...

Airdrie Echo Albertans are going to see for themselves the damage caused to forests by an infestation of mountain pine beetles from B. To stem the damage, earlier this year the province called on forestry companies to change harvesting sequences, so infested trees are taken down first, something which MacDonnell said is happening, but which can have a negative impact on the industry, as companies plan harvesting in 100- to 200-year cycles and on a species basis. The province estimates as...

The government used to let timber companies clear-cut areas of the national forest to support loblolly pine plantations, a practice that later proved devastating. The advisory group of area residents and conservationists is choosing a plan to repair damage caused by the timber industry. The Forest Service is in the middle of the first phase of restoration, which includes thinning all loblolly pine plantations between 15 and 45 years old. One-species plantations serve as buffets for insects...

We are hoping they understand the forests of Texas, the ecosystem all the plants and animals that depend on the forest, the economics of the forests and all the different folks who make their living on the forest. The grandeur of Deep East Texas pine trees bordering narrow rural roads surprised and amazed the North Texas teacher originally from California almost as much, she said, as the timber industry's commitment to the environment. Earlier in the week while visiting an OSB wood...

study in an effort to lobby the province and industries to protect more of the forest in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. We mapped and reviewed the entire area and found the foothills still contain high conservation values -- some of global significance -- but with the amount of ongoing industrial activity and the low level of protection, if there is not immediate corrective action the situation can safely be called dire, said James Strittholt, who authored the report. We mapped and...