The emerald ash borer, an Asian invasive insect, was recently discovered in Ohio and Michigan. This has forestry officials in Indiana concerned. Although no insect has been found ... Read More

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) keeps close tabs on violence to federal natural resource workers. Using new federal laws and improved access to data, PEER reports that threats ... Read More

British Columbia is still recovering from twelve days of devastating wildfire. The catastrophic fire is believed to have started by dry lightning strike in or near the Okanagan Mountain ... Read More

Firefighting is a deadly business. You can become a fatality on or off an actual fire. Eight firefighters were killed returning to their home base in Roseburg, Oregon after ... Read More

With more than 8,000 tree species known to date, nearly 970 trees are headed for extinction says the UKs Global Trees Campaign. Chile's national tree, the monkey puzzle, ... Read More

Dogwoods throughout the eastern United States have died from a disease called Discula destructive sp. nov., otherwise known as dogwood anthracnose. A recent study in the Great Smoky Mountains ... Read More

Rational people can easily recognize advances in science and technology over the last century. A child born in 1900 would have seen the blacksmith being replaced by automobile and airplane ... Read More

I interviewed sawmilling expert Ron Wenrich earlier this year on portable sawmills. Ron has been in the business for decades and is a regular at my forestry forum. This portable ... Read More

An Idaho Bitterroot Mountain wildfire claimed the lives of helitack crewmembers Jeff Allen and Shane Heath. According to an article in The Idaho Statesman, the crew had no ... Read More

Millions of acres of U.S. public land and their surrounding communities are at an increased risk for wildfire. When coupled with seasonal drought, these "unhealthy" and usually unmanaged forests are ... Read More

National Geographic recently featured an article and an MSNBC documentary on women that jump from planes into forest fires for a living. A formal Equal Employment Opportunity complaint allowed women ... Read More

What state grows the most seedlings? Does the federal government plant the most trees? Think you know a lot about tree planting in the United States. Take this short quiz ... Read More

Every week, I take a look at the most popular search terms for the About Forestry site to see what readers are looking for. If you're looking for information that ... Read More

I have compiled some information and located sources for finding forest firefighting jobs on the Internet. The links are current to the 2003 hiring year and the majority are ... Read More

Several Penn State University forestry professionals are working to slow red maple's raid on red oak sites in Pennsylvania hardwood forests. These University scientists are very concerned that surveys are ... Read More

The United States Forest Service is out of money budgeted to fight wildfire. Congress rejected a $298 million Bush request for additional emergency money to fight fire last week. Ready ... Read More

Forest industrial landowners are selling millions of acres of their Southern U.S. forests. These corporate forest owners are being pinched by rising property taxes, mergers and huge debt. "It ... Read More

Canada is experiencing some of the most disabling fires in decades. It is hard to fathom 10,000 people being evacuated from homes near Kamloops B.C. The weather forecast is not ... Read More

The state agency I worked 26 years for was constantly concerned and involved in prosecuting illegal dumping on both state and private forest property. People love to find a fresh ... Read More

Because of President Bush's urging for privatization of the national parks and forests, two former Secretaries of the Interior are crying foul. Bruce Babbit and Stewart Udall are saying ... Read More

Bobby Watkins, technical specialist with BASF writes a good article on why clearcutting is still in a forester's tool kit. "Ecological extremists and misinformed environmentalists routinely tag clearcutting as shortsighted ... Read More

Lester DeCoster several years ago predicted that there would be over two million more forest ownerships by the year 2010. New data suggest his predictions are coming true and ... Read More