logging

Mike Garrity writes, "Nearly 13 square miles (8,283 acres) are slated for commercial logging to produce four million board feet of timber a year."

The Bureau of Land Management wants to log and burn thousands of acres in the Garnet Range east of Missoula, but environmental groups are asking a judge to pause the project while evaluating the BLM’s decision.

The Flathead National Forest is taking public comment on another logging project in the Swan Valley, but environmental groups question why the project doesn’t seem to address issues mentioned in a recent court order.

Thanks to a few men who’ve designed a guitar, one hallowed spruce from northwest Montana has been given a voice to save a forest.

Mike Garrity writes, "The Forest Service estimates that the Gold Butterfly project will result in a net loss of $4.2 million to federal taxpayers."

The U.S. Forest Service is set to take bids for two of the logging projects at issue within the month.

A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will impact the environment and cost taxpayers $4.2 million, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

Commercial logging may proceed in a Forest Service project south of Anaconda, but all other activities must cease until a lawsuit is concluded, according to a federal judge.

Michael Garrity writes, "To enable the logging, the agency planned on bulldozing a stunning 40.7 miles of new logging roads in the Little Belt Mountains north of White Sulphur Springs, Montana."

Pyramid Mountain Lumber owner and General Manager Todd Johnson said the mill has been winding down its operations in steps over the past few months.