logging

One of the country’s largest forest management plans is facing controversial changes that strongly recommend logging in response to increased wildfires.

Michael Hoyt writes, "The Mud Creek Project uses the euphemism “vegetation” to obscure what it really is, a logging project that will release vast quantities of CO2 from trees and the soil and intensify global warming."

Fish, Wildlife & Parks is once again poised to log a portion of the Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area.

The groups say the Forest Service didn't include enough details about where exactly the logging project will take place to assess the impact on wildlife.

Mike Garrity writes, "The surest way to drive lynx to extinction is allowing the Forest Service to continue their massive deforestation of the West."

Steve Kelly writes, "Today, more than 23 million acres of these undeveloped landscapes – in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Eastern Oregon and Washington – remain unprotected, imperiled and ever increasingly vulnerable to being exploited and destroyed."

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.