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Minister Hackett’s Forestry Policy Group meets for fourth time • Backlog being addressed • Funding for Woodland Support Projects imminent • Project Management specialist appointed The fourth meeting of the national Forestry Policy Group took place today. Chaired by the Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity, Senator Pippa Hackett, the meeting was convened to monitor progress on the implementation of Project Woodland, which she established earlier this year, to review and implement national forest policy. Expressing satisfacti...

Shareen Strauss Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers After many questions and complaints from concerned  residents in Dunsmuir about the Blackberry Timber Harvest Plan on the Blackberry and Soda Creek ridges over Dunsmuir, city councilor Dave Keisler hosted a public information meeting last Friday with the companies involved in the project.  Around 40 residents, most whom live on South First Street or that have property that borders the timberland where the cutting will take place, came to the Dunsmuir Community Building for answers and information. District 2 Siskiyou County Supervisor Ed Valenzuela...

The City Sentinel April 3, 2021 By Patrick B. McGuigan The City Sentinel Endorsements The City Sentinel’s endorsement philosophy, detailed in print and online in recent years, leads the newspaper to make the best possible...

NJ may be too cold and snowy for some trees It's no secret that snow and ice can damage cars and their undercarriages if they are not cleaned properly. But snow can also affect trees and shrubs, so it's important to take care of them in the wake of storms. Gary Lovallo, owner of Chestnut Arboricultural and Forestry Services in Old Bridge and an arboricultural expert, said it's not the snow itself that is bad for trees because as it melts, it waters the roots. What's bad for trees is the snow and ice loads that accumulate on branches. The ice is heavy when it gets on branches and that causes b...

  There are 4,436 forestry licences awaiting processing by Department of Agriculture officials, the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture heard last Friday. The Department’s assistant secretary Colm Hayes told Michael Fitzmaurice TD: “There are 4,436 licences on hand in the Department for processing, of which 2,705 are for felling, 691 are for roads and 1,040 are for afforestation.” He said he had set a figure of 4,500 licences for 2021. Dissatisfaction Regarding dissatisfaction with compensation for forest owners with ash dieback chief forestry inspector Seamus Dunne said there were �...