by Web Editor | Jul 17, 2015 | News, News/PR
More than four billion board feet of Oregon timber was harvested last year. However, the harvest was a 1.74 decrease from 2013, and might decrease again in 2015 due to the problems at the slow ports and fewer-than-expected housing starts at the beginning of the year....
by Web Editor | Mar 6, 2015 | News, News/PR
Record low snowpack amid a second straight drought year has wildland managers bracing for what they consider an upcoming wildfire season in which catastrophic wildfires in the Cascades or Siskiyous “seems inevitable.” State and federal wildfire experts...
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 | Jul 9, 2014 | News, News/PR
Drought conditions and scorching temperatures that set a record on Monday are prompting the Oregon Department of Forestry to increase restrictions for Oregon logging sites and other commercial operations in Jackson and Josephine counties. The restrictions go into...