by Web Editor | Jul 26, 2017 | News, News/PR
A pioneering forest restoration management program has melded leading edge science and community consensus to protect a volatile and highly visible swath of Central Oregon’s public lands from the mounting threats of climate change and a catastrophic Central Oregon...
by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2016 | News, News/PR
A slowdown in log exports to Asia, the end of a trade deal between the United States and Canada, and a busy fire season all contributed to a roughly 8 percent decline in Oregon’s timber harvest last year. Loggers cut 3.79 billion board feet of timber last year from...
by Web Editor | Apr 13, 2016 | News, News/PR
New plans released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) would increase logging on the agency’s 2.5 million acres west of the Cascades summit — but don’t expect more chain saws to fire up anytime soon. As expected, the BLM plan ran into an immediate...
by Web Editor | Feb 2, 2015 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s timber industry hasn’t exactly been robust. You can see the charts showing a steady decline, read environmentalists’ 2015 plans to increase state authority over the industry or listen to conventional wisdom that says people just don’t...
by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2013 | News, News/PR
Three timber companies filed a lawsuit Monday in Oregon’s Federal District Court to lift a logging ban in national forests caused by the federal government’s shutdown. “It makes zero sense for the cash-strapped government to shut down operations that pay millions into...
