by Web Editor | Sep 9, 2016 | News, News/PR
The nine forest specialists had expected to drive into the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest on a kind of a rescue mission. They never made it that Monday morning in August. Instead, they had to watch as wildfire swept through the very woods they hoped to save with...
by Web Editor | Dec 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
A team of experts charged with accelerating the pace of Oregon forest restoration and heading off big fires in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon is proposing a 10-year effort to thin the underbrush in a 100,000-acre area. The proposal is a result of a decision a...
by Web Editor | Jan 10, 2014 | News, News/PR
A federal judge Wednesday upheld the U.S. Forest Service’s decision for an Oregon timber harvest project in the Umatilla National Forest. “The Forest Service properly analyzed the environmental impacts of the proposed project and ensured compliance with the numerous...
by Web Editor | Dec 20, 2013 | News, News/PR
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden is introducing his long-awaited timber bill to promote logging on national forests in Eastern Oregon. The Oregon Democrat’s Senate Natural Resources Committee is to take up the bill today. Timber industry and conservation groups that had...
by Web Editor | Mar 1, 2013 | News, News/PR
Long-delayed forest thinning on city-owned land in the Ashland Watershed in Ashland, Oregon is moving forward thanks to grant funding, an improved market for timber, and a neighboring thinning project on U.S. Forest Service land. Back in 2009, the Ashland City Council...
