Seeley Lake District Ranger Quinn Carver stands in front of a completed logging area. The project will log more than 4,000 acres of land.
Forest Service personnel and a large logging company have transformed thousands of acres west of Seeley Lake from thick forests to more fire resistant and healthy stands.
Work on the Westside Bypass Good Neighbor Authority picked up again for the summer on July 15. Roughly 4,866 acres will be thinned by next year. The project is roughly halfway complete since starting in 2021, according to Seeley Lake District Ranger Quinn Carver.
Timber company WeyerHaeuser, one of the owners of the most private timberland in the U.S., won the bid for the project.
WeyerHaeuser has worked both in the winter an...
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