U.S. Forest Service

New Mark Twain Forest supervisor says climate change will affect national forest’s management

Jonathan Ahl

Dawn Laybolt is new to the Mark Twain National Forest but not the U.S. Forest Service, having served in various roles at a number of forests over the past 13 years.

Nearly 100 Missouri school districts contain parts of the Mark Twain National Forest but can't collect property taxes on it. A program splitting timber revenue profits between the U.S. Forest Service and those schools was renewed.

Education

Rural schools getting their cut of federal logging revenue again

Ryan Delaney

The federal spending plan approved by Congress this week renews a program splitting lumber profits between the U.S. Forest Service and rural school…

McCormack Lake in the Mark Twain National Forest. Nearly 100 Missouri school districts contain parts of the federal land but can't collect property taxes on it.

Education

Profit sharing from timber sales were cut; now rural school districts have to make do with less

Ryan Delaney

Superintendent Tim Hager’s district in central Missouri is surrounded by federal forestland in every direction.School buses shuttle some of the 366…

Health, Science, Environment

National plan will affect management of Missouri's Mark Twain Forest

The U.S. Forest Service has released a final environmental impact statement for its new management plan for the nation's public forests.The new Forest…