Montana's forest management crisis deepens with consecutive wood plant closures

More than 25% of Montana is covered in forest, with millions of acres of trees that seem to never end.

Even though we see it every day, we may not think about how it takes tree thinning, wildfires, and even lumber mills, to maintain a healthy forest.

Experts in the forest management industry are expressing their concerns in the wake of two back-to-back wood product plant closure announcements in Missoula County.

"We're trying our best to get control of a really serious epidemic and forest health and wildfire crisis in the state," said Shawn Thomas, a state forester for the Montana Department Natural Resources Conservation.

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