NBC Montana

Logging project thins trees to create, enhance grizzly bear habitat

Vincent Logging, a family-owned logging company in Libby is working with Hecla Mining Company to manage its forested lands ...
OPB

Researchers find extreme heat impacts tree recovery even more than drought

Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. Since the extreme heat dome in the Pacific Northwest in June of 2021, researchers have been busy trying to identify how trees and forests ...
kcra.com

Extreme drought conditions may have contributed to tree damage, power outages in the Sierra

It's not unusual for wet snow to fall at elevations of 4,000 feet and below in the Sierra. It's also not unusual for that heavy, cement-like snow to bring down a few tree branches and cause some ...
KTVZ

Central Oregon LandWatch, coalition deliver 122K comments urging protecting older trees from logging

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Environmental groups, including Central Oregon LandWatch, delivered more than 122,000 public comments urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of the Interior to ...
KTVZ

Extreme heat represents a new threat to trees and plants in the Pacific Northwest

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — From June 25 to July 2, 2021, the Pacific Northwest experienced a record-breaking heat wave that sent the normally temperate region into Death Valley-like extremes that took a ...