forestry

Officials with the Salmon-Challis National Forest are giving away free Ponderosa pine and Western white pine seedlings to help Idahoans celebrate Arbor Day.

The recent collapse of western Montana's timber industry did more than eliminate jobs, it also left Missoula County and various management agencies with one less tool to manage area forests.

Colorado, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and other states have lost their integrated wood products infrastructure and struggle to sustainably manage their forests. Montana must not go down that road.

Sara Johnson rites, "The Pintler Face Project includes over 11,000 acres of deforestation, including 27 separate clearcuts, 22 of which will be over 40 acres in size."

The City of Missoula hopes to apply a forestry grant from the state to clean up what one official described as “messy” forest conditions atop Mount Dean Stone – a condition that wasn't known to the city when it acquired the property.

Taking into account anticipated mortality rates, Zack Bashoor estimates that the regeneration process will yield approximately one and a quarter million trees over a span of three years.

The study found that atmospheric aridity, or dry air, was far more determinantal to the health of Douglas firs than a lack of rainfall.

Most folks are familiar with The University of Montana’s student newspaper, the Kaimin. But did you know there was another, albeit short-lived, student newspaper back in the early days of the campus – this one published by the Forestry School?