Logging lightly: Woodland Restoration Inc. of Missoula takes easy-on-the-landscape approach to thinning

“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.

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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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