Forest Mulching as an Alternative: Bigfoot Forestry’s Sustainable Approach to Land Management

For homeowners, land managers, and public agencies seeking a potentially more sustainable solution, Bigfoot Forestry, LLC, a ...
Star-Gazette

Overrun by deer, New York forest managers turn to ‘slash walls’. Inside a growing practice

Southern Tier forest managers are turning to slash walls to regenerate lands hit hard by deer. The difference is "like the surface of the moon." ...
Opinion
Times-Standard on MSNOpinion

My Word | A reset needed on forest management

By Don Amador (Sept. 19 marked) the deadline for submitting initial public scoping comments in a new rulemaking process by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule ...
Yahoo

Forest Service chief explains the need for active land management

For Tom Schultz, the 21st chief of the U.S. Forest Service, repealing the Roadless Rule is not a matter of ideology but rather a matter of “common sense land management.” Leaving land alone and ...
Berkshire Eagle

'Forest management is nuanced.' A behind-the-scenes look at how foresters decide which trees to cut or save

SAVOY — Forester Kevin Podowka walked backward on a logging road as he led about 20 people through a small part of a 100-acre section of Savoy Mountain State Forest that is slated for cutting. Even as ...

Conservancy, resource groups teaming up to explain forest management across Kitsap

Girdling, gap cuts, thinning and planting are some of the tactics now being used in Kitsap County to restore former ...
The Columbian

In wildfire-prone Washington, ‘collaboration’ on forest management gives way to timber interests

Throughout her two decades working on forestry issues, Jasmine Minbashian has often found herself at odds with the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry. Her environmental activism started ...
ZAWYA

New Interim Forest Stewardship Standard Validates Responsible Forest Management in Zimbabwe

Forest certification ensures that plantations are managed responsibly and sustainably, protecting the rights of forest workers and communities, safeguarding the environment, and ensuring the ...