Logging lightly: Woodland Restoration Inc. of Missoula takes easy-on-the-landscape approach to thinning
| February 20, 2007 |  View for printing |
“I'm one of the lucky ones who look forward to coming to work every morning,” he says, his hard hat in hand swinging with every step. “I think we're making a difference.”
Blakely works as a contractor for a small Missoula-based logging operation called Woodland Restoration Inc. On Monday, the crew is working on a project to thin about 50 acres of both private land and property owned by the National Wildlife Federation.
Woodland Restoration Inc 406-626-5858
By PERRY BACKUS of the Missoulian
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Meet the beetles
Matt Arno, whose Huson-based Woodland Restoration Inc. handles the same kind of work, agrees. “If you go in after you have a beetle problem, it’s more of a save-what-you-can operation,” he says. “If you do the work first, often you can get the forest in good shape so the beetles won’t attack.”
by Jessie McQuillan
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