by Web Editor | May 4, 2018 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s Department of Forestry on Wednesday encouraged tree and forest owners to watch for continuing drought symptoms like dead tops, dead branches, thinning canopies and stressed cone crops. Given the warm end to last summer and drier than normal winter, the agency...
by Web Editor | Jan 31, 2018 | News, News/PR
From: Timber Harvesting Editors An Oregon district judge has refused to dismiss a 2016 lawsuit filed by counties with state forests within their borders that claimed state officials have refused to maximize timber revenues from lands that counties donated to the state...
by Web Editor | Jul 12, 2017 | News, News/PR
Wildfires barreled across the baking landscape of the western U.S. and Canada, destroying a smattering of homes, forcing thousands to flee and temporarily trapping children and counselors at a California campground. Two major wildfires in California have sent nearly...
by Web Editor | Feb 27, 2017 | News, News/PR
Environmental groups are pressuring Governor Kate Brown and the Oregon Board of Forestry to find new leadership on forestry issues and increase protections for coastal drinking water flowing through private forestland. That push accompanies legislative efforts to...
by Web Editor | Jan 9, 2017 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality drafted a report that identified logging as a contributor to known risks for drinking water quality in communities up and down the Oregon coast. But the report has never been published. It was scrapped by the agency after...