HAMILTON, Mont. — Logging work has commenced in a project intended to thin wooded areas that could potentially provide fuel for wildfires. The Ravalli Republic reported Sunday that loggers have ...

Thousands of acres of U.S. Forest Service land bordering Yellowstone National Park are safe from a large logging project - at ...

KALISPELL (AP) -- Forest thinning projects aimed at reducing wildfire risk are keeping loggers and log haulers at work during the housing slump. "Right now, we're the only game in town from some of ...

Montana loggers have added hazardous fuels reduction and forest health projects to their contracts for sawlogs in order to stay in business. A six-acre project for a homeowner atop Missoula's Pattee ...

Likewise, the outlook for Montana loggers is better than it has been in a few years, but it isn't particularly flush, said Keith Olson, head of the Montana Loggers Association in Kalispell. "There's a ...

For decades now, the green extreme has argued the industries that develop the nation's natural resources for commercial use ought to be forced off the West's "public" lands. And they didn't much care ...

Devising ways to stifle opposing offenses is hard enough. Trying to create an offense that will trample a defense may be even harder, especially if it’s the first time you’re doing it. That’s exactly ...

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) - Logging work has commenced in a project intended to thin wooded areas that could potentially provide fuel for wildfires. The Ravalli Republic reported Sunday that loggers have ...