U.S. Forest Service

Jack Puckett is a good friend of mine, and as I mentioned back in 2018, a great storyteller. He turned 97 this year. Recently, Jack told more of his stories to the Missoula Senior Forum and I had a chance to record the presentation, from which I will share today.

As the U.S. Forest Service plans to greatly increase prescribed burns to protect communities from devastating wildfires, a government report prompted by the state’s biggest-ever fire found “gaps in some key areas” in the federal agency’s strategy.

The U.S. Forest Service is abandoning a controversial project in the Uinta Mountains that would have removed trees on vast swaths of public land in northeastern Utah and was the subject of an environmental lawsuit filed in April.

A federal judge delivered a blow to wild horse conservationists on Monday evening by ending efforts to prevent the removal of roughly 88 wild horses from the Ochoco National Forest in eastern Oregon.

Holland Lake Lodge dates back to 1925, when the Forest Service issued a permit for a summer resort to include “a main building 40 by 60 feet in size, and a number of cabins for individual use,” according to press reports at the time.