by Web Editor | May 29, 2015 | News, News/PR
Vaagen Brothers Lumber is a fourth-generation business based in Colville, Washington, east of the Cascades. Today, we specialize in processing small logs, and in so doing we produce a good quantity of chips and bioenergy feedstocks, but the company has undergone many...
by Web Editor | Feb 20, 2015 | News, News/PR
Montana’s U.S. senators are getting behind a new bill they say will help Montana’s most rural timber counties round-out their budgets. Mineral County Commissioner Duane Simons says communities like his are reeling after Congress failed to renew the Secure...
by Web Editor | Feb 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
Montana timber counties recently lost lots of federal revenue. Local officials say public services are going to suffer as a result. “It’s very scary. We’re pretty bare bones out here the way it is,” said Mineral County Commissioner Duane...
by Web Editor | Nov 27, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a forest bill that sets the stage for sweeping changes in the management of 2.1 million acres of federal forest in Western Oregon. The bill attempts to resolve decades of lawsuits over the Bureau of Land Management’s so-called...
by Web Editor | Oct 4, 2013 | News, News/PR
The Rough and Ready Sawmill was an institution in southern Oregon for 91 years. Its lumber helped fuel the post-World War II building boom and settle the rural West. Now, it sits empty, the last of 22 mills in Josephine County to shut down for good, signaling the end...