Eye On Idaho: Slow Growth Seen In Timber Market

Idaho’s state Land Board has approved a timber sale plan for 2014 that calls for harvesting 249 million board feet from state endowment lands, the highest logging level in more than a decade. The timber cut has been fixed at 247 million board feet for the last several...

Timber Salvage Planned Following Idaho Wildfire

Officials with the Bureau of Land Management are preparing an environmental assessment as part of a plan to salvage timber burned last summer in a wildfire in west-central Idaho. BLM officials want to log about 10 million board feet on 940 acres in the John Day...

Idaho Lands Agency Reports Record Timber Harvest

State officials say logging companies harvested a record amount of timber on Idaho’s endowment lands in the past year. According to the Idaho Department of Lands, 330 million board feet of timber worth about $50 million was harvested during the fiscal year that...