by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2018 | News, News/PR
Despite hot, dry conditions, wildland fire crews wrangled 18 percent containment in the Garner Complex, which reached 19,944 acres Wednesday, fire officials said. The complex declared a conflagration by the governor last week comprises fires started by lightning on...
by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2016 | News, News/PR
A slowdown in log exports to Asia, the end of a trade deal between the United States and Canada, and a busy fire season all contributed to a roughly 8 percent decline in Oregon’s timber harvest last year. Loggers cut 3.79 billion board feet of timber last year from...
by Web Editor | Dec 15, 2014 | News, News/PR
One word sums up the reaction across Oregon to the news that funding for the timber counties was dropped from a federal spending bill: frustration. “I’m very disappointed,” House Republican Leader Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, said. “It seems...
by Web Editor | Aug 2, 2013 | News, News/PR
With the five largest fires burning in Douglas and Josephine counties having grown to more than 35,000 acres, southwest Oregon now has the dubious distinction of being the nation’s wildfire hot spot. More than 3,500 firefighters from throughout Oregon and around...
by Web Editor | May 24, 2013 | News, News/PR
Eighteen Western Oregon counties will soon receive $2 million in federal timber payments that had been held up under the sequester law aimed at cutting federal spending, officials learned Thursday. Douglas County Commissioner Doug Robertson, who chairs the Association...
