The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON - On Thursday, September 2, federal forest entomologists, a state forest health specialist, a state fireregulations forester and NRCS Washington State Forester will join private forest landowners and local NRCS Soil Conservationist and Blue Mountain RCD Coordinator on a timber tour through Columbia and western GarfieldCounties.

The purpose of the field visit is to examine individual trees and timber stands struggling to survive following cata­strophic fires in 2005 and 2006. Many trees were not direct­ly affected by the fires, but secondary effects; bark beetles and several forest...