Oregon Wildfire Timber Sales Could Go Up In July

Sales of timber in stands charred in last summer’s Chetco Bar Fire could be sold as early as next month as the Forest Service this week formalized its salvage plans for the 191,197-acre fire area in southwest Oregon. The forest’s final Chetco Bar Salvage Project...

Oregon Names Top Forest Operators

From: Timber Harvesting Editors Oregon’s State Board of Forestry recently recognized its 2017 Forest Operators of the Year, an award that recognizes contractors who consistently exceed Oregon Forest Practices Act standards voluntarily and also help improve public...
OLC Reaches Teens

OLC Reaches Teens

Written by Dan Shell Twenty-something Millennial generation logging equipment operators from Miller Timber Services in Philomath, Ore. told their story at Oregon Logging Conference in Eugene, Ore. on Feb. 22-24. More than 400 local Oregon high school students attended...

Fighting Central Oregon Wildfire With Fire

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...