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Todd Morgan

Todd A. Morgan is director of the Forest Industry Research Program at the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana.

Smoke billows from a prescribed burn as part of a 125-square-mile restoration project on the Payette National Forest near McCall, Idaho. (USFS, AP Photo)
Featured, Stories July 15, 2021 July 19, 2021

Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act on National Forests

A review of U.S. Forest Service land management accomplishments, budget and litigation since complying with the National Environmental Policy Act.

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Bill Calovis watches as lumber is loaded onto his truck at the B&J Sawmill in Reed Point. (AP Photo, James Woodcock)
Featured, Stories April 5, 2021 April 5, 2021

Lumber Prices Skyrocket During Pandemic

A construction and remodeling boom has driven the demand for lumber and far exceeded the supply, causing lumber prices to rise all over the country.

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A convoy of log trucks head south on U.S. Highway 93. (AP Photo, Kurt Wilson)
Featured, Stories September 30, 2019 January 13, 2021

How the Forest Industry Changed the Bitterroot Valley

What would the economy of Ravalli County look like today if timber harvests hadn’t declined?

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A log goes through a vertical saw at RBM Lumber in Columbia Falls, Montana. (AP Photo/Flathead Beacon, Greg Lindstrom)
Featured, Stories January 2, 2019 January 13, 2021

What Happened to Montana’s Forestry Jobs?

Timber harvests are the major cause of declining employment and labor earnings in Montana’s forest industry.

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The smoke column from the Cabin Gulch Fire on the Helena National Forest in 2015. (Thom Bridge, Independent Record)
Stories September 25, 2017 September 21, 2018

Wildfire Emissions in Montana

Depression era bank robber Willie Sutton’s reasoning for why he robbed banks was summed up in a famous quote, “Because that’s where the money…

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