Chuck Roady Vice President & General Manager – F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Company, of Columbia Falls, Montana and President – Federal Timber Purchasers Coalition issued the following statement at the White House, at an event featuring remarks by President Donald J. Trump on the Administration’s conservation accomplishments. “President Trump has placed more focus and…
FTPC Executive Director Bill Imbergamo testified in front of the House Interior Subcommittee yesterday, in support of an active timber sale program. You can watch the testimony at this link. His testimony is below. Testimony of the Federal Timber Purchasers Coalition to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: Re: Fiscal Year 2020…
In a new report entitled “Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States”, an independent economic research firm called the Rhodium Group analyzed the negative consequences of climate change on the American economy. The report synthesizes the probability and magnitude of the impacts of climate change on eight regions across the…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced they have extended the listing deadline for the Northern Long-Eared Bat (NLEB) for six months and re-opened the comment period for 60 days. The FWS said they did so intending to provide “additional time to resolve questions received during the public comment period regarding the species’ population and…
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Missoula to stop the Rendezvous Trails timber sale on the Gallatin National Forest. The sale calls for thinning lodgepole pine along ski trails on the forest. The litigants allege that the Forest Service acted too quickly in…
A forest treatment project in the Helena National Forest is finally beginning after being postponed by nearly a decade of litigation. The project includes mostly thinning on 2,900 acres as part of a broader, 15,600-acre project intended to reduce fire danger and increase forest health. The Cabin Gulch Vegetation Treatment Project aimed to increase forest…
A study by the Pacific Northwest Research Station found that both intensive and moderate thinning worked to reduce fire intensity and protect communities in the Wallow Fire, the largest wildfire in Arizona history that scorched over 539,000 acres in 2011. Conservative and intensive fuel treatments worked to allow for the protection of homes according to…
The Senate Environment & Public Works Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy, held a hearing Tuesday, June 3rd, on the impacts of climate change. The hearing, titled “Farming, Fishing, Forestry, and Hunting in an Era of Changing Climate” included witnesses such as Dan Ashe of the Fish and Wildlife Service and James Walls,…
The House Committee on Natural Resources held an oversight field hearing in Batesville, Arkansas on May 14 examining the impact of species listings and critical habitat designations under the Endangered Species Act. The hearing, entitled “Protecting the Rights of Property Owners: Proposed Federal Critical Habitat Designations Gone Wild,” examined the comprehensive impacts of critical habitat…
Idaho Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo this week introduced a bill that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 so that 16- and 17-year-olds would be allowed to work in mechanized logging operations under parental supervision, extending benefits enjoyed by others in the agriculture industry by allowing family members to learn the…