Collaboration Spurs Restoration Projects
By Anne Dahl, Swan Ecosystem Center. Spurred by collaboration, a flurry of restoration projects is underway this year on the Flathead National Forest in the Swan Valley, with more on the way. Contractors and Forest Service crews are removing old bridge abutments, treating weeds, re-piling old slash piles in preparation for burning, restoring wetlands, repairing [...]
Forest Funding Advances Montana Forest Restoration Work
A collaborative group of loggers, community development groups and conservationists working in coordination with the Forest Service will receive a second round of federal funding to advance forest restoration and forest employment in Montana. The Southwestern Crown Collaborative announced $3.5 million will be distributed to three National Forests in Montana as part of the “Collaborative [...]
Workshop Connects Contractors with Forest Jobs
Workshop Connects Contractors with Forest Jobs New employment opportunities in the woods were the focus of a recent contractor’s workshop organized by the U.S. Forest Service, the Montana Logging Association and several conservation and community development groups. The two-day workshop in Seeley Lake alerted local contractors to employment opportunities in the region as well as [...]
Continue Reading →Southwest Crown of the Continent forest project workshop on agenda
ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian Saturday April 16 Forest workers interested in Southwest Crown of the Continent job opportunities can attend a two-day workshop on new procedures this Tuesday and Wednesday. “There’s a lot of the stewardship work available,” Montana Logging Association safety management consultant Jason Todhunter said. “This will be helpful for anybody interested [...]
Continue Reading →A New Tool for Business
Gordy Sanders knows a thing or two about Montana’s timber industry – for over thirty years he’s had a front-row seat as the market declined and adversely impacted close friends and rural Montana towns. Sanders is currently Resource Manager for Pyramid Mountain Lumber, the oldest surviving family owned and operated lumber mill in Montana. In [...]
Continue Reading →Collaborative Ramps up Efforts Against Noxious Weeds
By Annamarie Iannetta Oct 5 2010 SEELEY LAKE, Mont. — A large-scale project to restore forest lands in Montana has been awarded one million dollars for at least one year to target major threats like noxious weeds. Noxious weeds come in a variety of shapes and colors. The most common look like pretty flowers similar [...]
Continue Reading →Western Montana, Idaho forest restoration projects get federal fund
By MATT VOLZ Associated Press | August 14, 2010 HELENA – Forest restoration projects in Montana and Idaho are among 10 nationwide that have been chosen to share $10 million under a new federal program meant to unite groups such as loggers and conservationists that may have once had competing interests. The restoration projects span [...]
Continue Reading →Restoration Project Wins Funding
Missoula, MT. – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell have announced (see attached letter) that a large-scale project to restore forested lands in Montana and create rural jobs has won significant federal funding for the next decade. The project will focus on the region encompassing the Blackfoot, Clearwater and Swan River [...]
Continue Reading →Originally published in the Missoulian on May 17th 2010. Heal the forest, clear the stream, kill the weeds and build the trails. Pay the logger, help the wildlife, fight the fire, save the mill. “That’s the way forward, is to look at our forests and our communities at the landscape level,” said Scott Brennan. “That’s [...]
Continue Reading →Missoula, MT. – A local proposal to create more than 150 jobs and restore forest lands within the Southwestern Crown of the Continent is one of two nominated for a significant sum of federal funding by U.S. Forest Service Northern Regional Forester Leslie Weldon. If selected by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Forest Service [...]
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