by Web Editor | Jun 20, 2014 | News, News/PR
The U.S. Forest Service has designated national forestlands in Central Oregon and elsewhere that are prone to insect infestation, disease outbreaks and massive wildfires, a move that could speed up projects aimed at improving forest health. “If there is a project that...
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 | Jun 5, 2013 | News, News/PR
Unprecedented action is needed to tackle unprecedented circumstances facing Oregon’s timber counties that are on the brink of insolvency, Gov. John Kitzhaber told a legislative committee Monday. Kitzhaber urged members of the House Rules Committee to support a plan...
by Web Editor | Apr 15, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber this week sent a one-page response to the U.S. Forest Service chief questioning the federal government’s legal authority to seek the return of $3.6 million in payments to financially distressed Oregon timber counties. The federal...
by Web Editor | Feb 8, 2013 | News, News/PR
Gov. John Kitzhaber on Thursday gave members of Congress a menu of options for increasing logging on the so-called O&C timberlands in western Oregon to help rural counties shore up cash-strapped budgets and produce logs for local mills. The governor said he hopes...