U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will meet with regional forest officials Tuesday to discuss plans and preparations. The Forest Service is part of the Agriculture Department.
Date: May 17, 2016
Category: Business
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Feds say Southwest, Northwest could see major wildfires
Weve been very fortunate here in the central part of the country to have above-normal precipitation to allow us to postpone the fire season, U.S. Forest Service chief Tom Tidwell said at a news conference Tuesday in Denver.
Date: Jun 10, 2015
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Forest Service yanks $10 million contract to boost its image
Jim Golden, a retired deputy regional forester for the northwest and chairman of the board of the National Association of Forest Service Retirees, said he warned Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell in an email on Saturday of the "growing firestorm" among retirees unless the agency got out information e
Date: Jan 07, 2015
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New US Forest Service plan retreats from ban on fracking in national forest in ...
The initial draft was one way to go at it, but our policy is we deal with surface issues and we do not get involved in how and what methodology is used to extract oil and gas, said Tom Tidwell, chief of the Forest Service.
Date: Nov 18, 2014
Category: Business
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Hey Justin Bieber: Forget The Fake Protest, Buckhead Wants You!
"Buckhead takes pride in being home to many celebrities such as Sir Elton John, Usher and Shaquille O'Neal to name just a few," Tom Tidwell, chairman of the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods, said. "Justin Bieber, like many celebrities, can live almost anywhere he wants, and Atlantans should be prou
Berry said he talked with Forest Service chief Tom Tidwell to clarify how the shutdown would affect the 121 ski areas operating on federal land and was assured resort leases are not immediately affected.
"We've always had bark beetle infestations, but we've never had anything that's been so widespread and spread so quickly," said Tom Tidwell, chief of the U.S. Forest Service. "The only place it's really starting to slow down is just where we're starting to run out of trees."
Low winter snowfall brought on an early fire season, said Tom Tidwell, chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Years of drought, record-breaking heat and low humidity, coupled with miles of dead, dry trees killed from beetle infestations, have converged to make for the incendiary conditions.